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! colspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |
! |Bilabial
! |Labial
! |Dental
! |Coronal
! |Retroflex
! |Velar
! |Palatal
! |Dorsal
! |Placeless
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! rowspan="1" colspan="2" |Nasals
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
|'''m''' /m/
| '''m''' /m/
|'''n''' /n/
| '''n''' /n/  
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|<span style="color:gray;">'''n''' [ŋ]</span>
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|(/ɴ/)
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! rowspan="3"|Stops
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!<small>plain</small>
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
|'''p''' /p/
! |<small>voiceless</small>
|'''t''' /t/
| '''p''' /p/
|'''ṭ''' /ʈɬ/
| '''t''' /t/
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| '''c, k''' /k/
|'''c''' /k/
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!<small>voiced</small>
! |<small>voiced</small>
|'''b''' /b/
| '''b''' /b/
|'''d''' /d/
| '''d''' /d/
|'''''' /ɖɮ/
| '''g''' /g/
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|'''g''' /ɡ/
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! colspan="2"|Fricatives
! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
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! |<small>voiceless</small>
|'''z''' /z/
| '''f''' /f/
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| '''s''' /s/
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| '''h''' /h/
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! colspan="2" style="background: ;"|Approximants
! |<small>voiced</small>
|'''v''' /v/
| '''v''' /v/
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| '''z''' /z/
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|'''i''' /j/
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! colspan="2" style="background: ;"|Liquids
! colspan="2" |Flap
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| '''r''' /ɾ/
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! colspan="2" |Lat. app.
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| '''l''' /l/
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|'''l''' /ɭ/
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Revision as of 02:29, 25 February 2016

Lexicon

Bentovian/Swadesh list (Schargasser; pronounced /kʰakasa/ [kʰagasa]) is a divergent Wiebian lect spoken in Cagasazumi (Schargassersümme). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is inspired by Japanese, Bantu and Clofabosin.

  • V:C > VnC
  • öCe > oCi
  • üCe > uCi
  • -er > -a, -el > -o

Numbers:

  • 1: wahm - native [wamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [haN]
  • 2: disser - native [titsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tei]
  • 3: narg - native [nagga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki]
  • 4: đauf - native [ʈoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ga]
  • 5: säles - native [seɭɭi]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ʑeN]
  • 6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʰaN]
  • 7: rut - native [uttu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɭatu]
  • 8: lerz - native [ɭetsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɭja]
  • 9: pfarb - native [happa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [pʰjapu]
  • 10: kier - native [kʰeː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [kja]

Phonology

Kagasa is a mora-timed language like Japanese.

Consonants

Bentovian/Swadesh list consonants
Labial Coronal Velar
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ n [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ c, k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ s /s/
voiced v /v/ z /z/
Flap r /ɾ/
Lat. app. l /l/

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.