Bentovian/Swadesh list

Kagasa (Schargasser; pronounced /kʰakasa/ [kʰagasa]) is a divergent Wiebian lect. A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is intended to be vaguely Japano-Bantu.

• V:C > VnC
• öCe > eCo
• üCe > iCo
• -er > -a, -el > -o

Numbers:

• 1: wahm - native [wamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [haN]
• 2: diƨƨer - native [tisa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tei]
• 3: narg - native [naŋga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki]
• 4: đauf - native [ʈoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ga]
• 5: säliƨ - native [seɭɭi]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ʑeN]
• 6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʰaN]
• 7: rut - native [undu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɾatu]
• 8: lerz - native [ɾeNsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɾja]
• 9: pfarb - native [hamba]; Kurmo-Kagasa [pʰjapu]
• 10: kier - native [kʰeː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [kja]

Phonology

Kagasa is a mora-timed language like Japanese.

Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Dorsal	Placeless
Nasals		m /m/	n /n/				(/ɴ/)
Stops
	plain	b /p~b/	d /t~d/	ḍ /ʈɬ/	j [t͡ɕ~d͡ʑ]	g /k~ɡ/
	aspirated	p /pʰ/	t /tʰ/	ṭ /ʈɬʰ/	ch [t͡ɕʰ]	k /kʰ/
Fricatives			z /z/		sh [ɕ]		h /h/
Approximants		w /w/			y /j/
Liquids				l /ɭ/

Plain stops are realized as voiced stops after a vowel or a nasal.

The placeless nasal /ɴ/ only occurs in the syllable coda. It is realized as a syllabic homorganic nasal before a stop or a nasal, and as lengthening and nasalization of the previous vowel otherwise. The sequence /ɴɭ/ is realized as /ɭɭ/.

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	ī /iː/			u /u/	ū /uː/
Mid	e /e/	ē /eː/			o /o/	ō /oː/
Open			a /a/	ā /aː/

Phonotactics

The maximal syllable structure is (C(j))VV or (C(j))VN.