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Nasalised vowels are still considered vowels, so the VCV rule still applies, e.g. /ṼtṼ/ would still become /ṼdṼ/, with /Ṽ/ representing any nasalised vowel. | Nasalised vowels are still considered vowels, so the VCV rule still applies, e.g. /ṼtṼ/ would still become /ṼdṼ/, with /Ṽ/ representing any nasalised vowel. | ||
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Nantai | |
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男体語 nàn-tái-gò | |
Pronunciation | [ˈnã̞.dáiˌgo̞] |
Created by | Jukethatbox |
Date | 2024 |
Setting | Alt-history Earth |
Native to | Tochigi Prefecture, Japan |
Native speakers | ~566 (2023) |
Japonic
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Early form | |
Standard form | Standard Nantai
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Dialects |
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Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Japan |
Regulated by | Nantai Association |
Nantai(男体語; Nantai: [ˈnã̞.dáiˌgo̞]) is a Japonic language spoken natively in what is now the Tochigi Prefecture in Japan. It is a critically endangered language, with only 566 remaining native speakers.
Due to its phonetic similarity to Japanese, the language was officially considered a dialect of Japanese and was suppressed as "improper speech" until 1988, though linguists had been considering Nantai a separate language from as early as 1901 due to a lack of mutual intelligibility with Japanese.
Nantai has also influenced the Tochigi dialect of Japanese, mainly through the lack of distinction between /i/ and /e/ sounds, which is the defining feature of Tochigi-ben, as well as the voicing of consonants between two vowels.
Phonology
Orthography
Nantai uses the three writing systems of Japanese: Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana. All three scripts have the same purpose as in Japanese, with Hiragana for grammar, Kanji for vocabulary and Katakana for foreign loanwords.
Consonants
Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal |
Velar | Palatal | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ | |||
Fricative | f | s z | ɕ ʑ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | (ɲ) | |||
Approximant | w | ||||||
Lateral | l |
/ɲ/ and /ŋ/ are allophones of /n/, for before /e/ or /i/ and before /k/ or /g/ respectively.
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close/close-mid | i~e | ɯ | |
Close-mid/Open-mid | o~ɔ | ||
Open | a |
Nasalisation
When an alveolar nasal consonant(/n/) is after a vowel, the vowel is nasalised and the consonant is no longer pronounced, e.g. /a/ + /n/ → /an/ → /ã/.
Nasalised vowels are still considered vowels, so the VCV rule still applies, e.g. /ṼtṼ/ would still become /ṼdṼ/, with /Ṽ/ representing any nasalised vowel.