Bentovian/Swadesh list

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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 intended to be vaguely Japanese, Latin and Bantu.

  • V:C > VnC
  • öCe > oCi
  • üCe > uCi
  • -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/ /ʈɬ/ g /k~ɡ/
aspirated p /pʰ/ t /tʰ/ /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.