Bentovian/Swadesh list

Lexicon

Bentovian/Swadesh list (Schargasser; pronounced [kagasa]) 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 [vamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ham]
• 2: disser - native [ditsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʁei]
• 3: narg - native [nagga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki]
• 4: đauf - native [ɖoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [dʁa]
• 5: säles - native [selli]; Kurmo-Kagasa [zem]
• 6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tam]
• 7: rut - native [uttu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [latu]
• 8: lerz - native [letsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [lja]
• 9: pfarb - native [fappa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [pʁapu]
• 10: kier - native [keː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [kʁa]

Phonology

Kagasa is a mora-timed language like Japanese.

Consonants

Bentovian/Swadesh list consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Dorsal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	[ɳ]	[ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	ṭ /ʈ/	c, k /k/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/	d /ɖ/	g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/
	voiced	v /v/	z /z/		r /ʁ/
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.