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'''Kimow'''(/kiːmoʊ/, <small>Kimow(Kimo):</small> [[Help:IPA|[kʰím.ôʊ]]]) is a language isolate that is notorious for the fact that the majority of its words are homonyms, meaning they have various meanings. For example, the name of the language, Kimow, can mean "Kimow"(adj.), "the Kimow language", "the Kimow people", "an ethnic Kimow", "a Kimow speaker(so not necessarily an ethnic Kimow)", "a member of the Kimow diaspora", "Kimow food" or "a Kimow city". There are also only two main dialects, the Kimo and the Wakki, and their homonymic meanings differ greatly at times, making mutual understanding difficult. Tone and phonology vary slightly as well, though not as greatly and are thus more mutually intelligible.
'''Kimow'''(/kiːmoʊ/, <small>Kimow:</small> [[Help:IPA|[kʰím.ôʊ]]] or [[Help:IPA|[kʰǐm.ɑ̄w]]]), also(but less commonly) called '''Kimau''', is a language isolate that is notorious for the fact that the majority of its words are homonyms, meaning they have various meanings. For example, the name of the language, Kimow, can mean "Kimow"(adj.), "the Kimow language", "the Kimow people", "an ethnic Kimow", "a Kimow speaker(so not necessarily an ethnic Kimow)", "a member of the Kimow diaspora", "Kimow food" or "a Kimow city". There are also only two main dialects, the Kimo and the Wakki, and their homonymic meanings differ greatly at times, making mutual understanding difficult. Tone and phonology vary slightly as well, though not as greatly and are thus more mutually intelligible.
==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===

Revision as of 22:33, 11 April 2024

Kimow
Kimau[1]
kimow/kimàw
Pronunciation[kʰím.ôʊ]
[kʰǐm.ɑ̄w]
Created byJukethatbox
Date2024
Standard form
Standard Igkin Kimo
Dialects
  • Kimo dialects
    • Igkin dialects
      • Standard Igkin
      • Kemhu Kka
    • Mukku (†)[2]
  • Wakki dialects

Kimow(/kiːmoʊ/, Kimow: [kʰím.ôʊ] or [kʰǐm.ɑ̄w]), also(but less commonly) called Kimau, is a language isolate that is notorious for the fact that the majority of its words are homonyms, meaning they have various meanings. For example, the name of the language, Kimow, can mean "Kimow"(adj.), "the Kimow language", "the Kimow people", "an ethnic Kimow", "a Kimow speaker(so not necessarily an ethnic Kimow)", "a member of the Kimow diaspora", "Kimow food" or "a Kimow city". There are also only two main dialects, the Kimo and the Wakki, and their homonymic meanings differ greatly at times, making mutual understanding difficult. Tone and phonology vary slightly as well, though not as greatly and are thus more mutually intelligible.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Red sounds are exclusive to Kimo dialects, while blue sounds are exclusive to Wakki dialects. Green sounds are exclusive to Igkin dialects, which although are a subset of Kimo dialects, do have some different sounds. Black sounds are in all sets of dialects.

Front Central Back
Close i y ɯ[3] u[4]

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources

  1. ^ Original exonym of the language before widespread English-based romanisation, now only used in German in the form of *kimauisch*.
  2. ^ Mostly extinct, some elderly speakers still exist.
  3. ^ Allophone of [m] in initial position.
  4. ^ In Wakki dialects, the [u] is substituted by [w] in most cases.
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