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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''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 Japanese, Latin and Bantu. | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''Schargasser''; pronounced /kʰakasa/ [kʰagasa]) is a divergent [[Wiebian]] lect spoken in Cagasazumi (''''). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is intended to be vaguely Japanese, Latin and Bantu. | ||
*V:C > VnC | *V:C > VnC | ||
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Numbers: | Numbers: | ||
*1: wahm - native [wamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [haN] | *1: wahm - native [wamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [haN] | ||
*2: | *2: disser - native [tisa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tei] | ||
*3: narg - native [naŋga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki] | *3: narg - native [naŋga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki] | ||
*4: đauf - native [ʈoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ga] | *4: đauf - native [ʈoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ga] | ||
*5: | *5: säles - native [seɭɭi]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ʑeN] | ||
*6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʰaN] | *6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʰaN] | ||
*7: rut - native [undu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɾatu] | *7: rut - native [undu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɾatu] | ||
Revision as of 01:39, 22 February 2016
Bentovian/Swadesh list (Schargasser; pronounced /kʰakasa/ [kʰagasa]) is a divergent Wiebian lect spoken in Cagasazumi ('). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is intended to be vaguely Japanese, Latin and Bantu.
- V:C > VnC
- öCe > eCo
- üCe > iCo
- -er > -a, -el > -o
Numbers:
- 1: wahm - native [wamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [haN]
- 2: disser - native [tisa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tei]
- 3: narg - native [naŋga]; 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 [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/ | g /k~ɡ/ | |||
| aspirated | p /pʰ/ | t /tʰ/ | ṭ /ʈɬʰ/ | c /kʰ/ | |||
| Fricatives | z /z/ | h /h/ | |||||
| Approximants | v /w/ | i /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.