Bentovian/Swadesh list

Kagasa (Schargass) 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 [ɖɭoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ga]
• 5: säliƨ - native [selli]; 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

Consonants

		Bilabial	Coronal		Palatal	Dorsal	Placeless
			central	lateral
Nasals		m /m/	n /n/				/ɴ/
Stops
	plain	b /p/	d /t/	ḍ /ʈ/	j /t͡ɕ/	g /k/
	voiced	p /pʰ/	t /tʰ/	ṭ /ʈʰ/	ch /t͡ɕʰ/	k /kʰ/
Fricatives			s /s/				h /h/
Approximants		w /w/			y /j/
Liquids			r /r~ɭ/