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| speakers2 = ~31,850 K’wa<br>~21,980 Kokosi<br>~15,890 Kikiñ<br>~280 other | | speakers2 = ~31,850 K’wa<br>~21,980 Kokosi<br>~15,890 Kikiñ<br>~280 other | ||
| familycolor = Language isolate | | familycolor = Language isolate | ||
| script1 = Latn | |||
| notice = ipa | | notice = ipa | ||
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! colspan=2 | Nasal | ! colspan=2 | Nasal | ||
| m || n || ŋ || ɲ | | m̥ m || n̥ n || (ŋ) || ɲ | ||
|- | |||
! colspan=2 | Trill | |||
| || r || || | |||
|- | |- | ||
! rowspan=2 | Fricative | ! rowspan=2 | Fricative | ||
! pulmonic | ! pulmonic | ||
| ɸ || s z || || rowspan=2 | ç | | ɸ~f || s z || || rowspan=2 | ç | ||
|- | |- | ||
! palatalised | ! palatalised | ||
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| || l || w̥ w || j̥ j | | || l || w̥ w || j̥ j | ||
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Kivatu | ====Voiceless consonants==== | ||
Kivatu has more voiceless consonants than other languages. In particular, voiceless nasals(/m̥/ and /n̥/) and voiceless approximants(/w̥/ and /j̥/) are common in the language. Of these abnormal voiceless consonants, /w̥/ is the most common across most vocabulary, and thus has its own letter, ⟨v⟩, while the other voiceless consonants simply use the letter for their more common voiced counterpart, with a ⟨’⟩ added, e.g. ''j'' [j] and ''j’'' [j̥]. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||
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| a || || ɑ | | a || || ɑ | ||
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===Phonotactics=== | |||
All CV and V syllables are possible in Kivatu, though VC syllables do appear sometimes in some loanwords, like ''b’at'''aŋ''''', "baseball bat", from Indonesian ''batang'', or ''rob'''ok''''', "robot", from English ''robot''. | |||
[[Category:Kivatu]] | [[Category:Kivatu]] | ||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:A priori]] | [[Category:A priori]] | ||