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{{PAGENAME}} (/ | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (/ˈkiɹkˌkaçˁəlˌhymb/ lit. "Kirkkasel language") is an L-Austronesian language spoken in the island of Kirkkasel in Lõis's Southeast Asia. It is inspired by Wiobian, Estonian, and Oceanic languages (particularly Pohnpeian and Iaai) and has lots of phonetically adapted Sanskrit loanwords from antiquity. | ||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
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! rowspan="3" style="width: 90px; "| | |||
! colspan="4" style="width: 180px; " |Front | |||
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Central | |||
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Back | |||
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! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |<small>unrounded</small> | |||
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |<small>rounded</small> | |||
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!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
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! style="" |Close | |||
| '''i''' /i/ | |||
| '''i''' /iː/ | |||
| '''ü''' /y/ | |||
| '''ü''' /yː/ | |||
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| '''u''' /u/ | |||
| '''u''' /uː/ | |||
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! style="" |Close-mid | |||
| '''e''' /e/ | |||
| '''e''' /eː/ | |||
| '''ö''' /ø/ | |||
| '''ö''' /øː/ | |||
| '''e''' /ə/ | |||
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| '''o''', '''õ''' /o/, /ɤ/ | |||
| '''o''', '''õ''' /oː/, /ɤ:/ | |||
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! style="" |Open-mid | |||
| '''ä''' /ɛ/ | |||
| '''ä''' /ɛː/ | |||
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! style="" |Open | |||
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| '''a''' /a/ | |||
| '''a''' /aː/ | |||
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Not all vowels really have phonemic length. | |||
Diphthongs: '''ei ie uo üö''' /ɛɪ iə uə yə/ | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
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[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] | [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Lõis]][[Category: | [[Category:Lõis]] | ||
[[Category:Austronesian languages]] | |||
[[Category:A posteriori]] | |||