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Kilīmos-sāîl is a Wasc language spoken in the west of the continent of Ternium, largely along the banks of the Vinajkâm River and Sea. It is the native language of the Kingdom of Kilīmos and, after the fall of this kingdom and of the Itśenāzam Empire, grows to become the lingua franca of West Ternium as a whole. | Kilīmos-sāîl is a Wasc language spoken in the west of the continent of Ternium, largely along the banks of the Vinajkâm River and Sea. It is the native language of the Kingdom of Kilīmos and, after the fall of this kingdom and of the Itśenāzam Empire, grows to become the lingua franca of West Ternium as a whole. | ||
==Etymology== | |||
The name ''Kilīmos-sāîl''' derives from the Wascotl *quįli-mos scaqu-ila, "the language of the land of royalty". Likewise, the name of the Kingdom of Kilīmos, the state in which Kilīmos-sāîl is mostly spoken, is derived from *quįli-mos, "the land of royalty". | |||
==Phonology== | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center | |||
!Phonology | |||
!Labial | |||
!colspan="2"|Coronal | |||
!Dorsal | |||
|- | |||
!Nasal | |||
|m | |||
|colspan="3"|n [n ~ ŋ]* | |||
|- | |||
! Plosive | |||
|p b | |||
|colspan="2"|t d | |||
|k g | |||
|- | |||
!Fricative | |||
|f v | |||
|s̻ z̻ | |||
|ʃ ʒ | |||
|x ɣ | |||
|- | |||
!Approximant | |||
| | |||
|colspan="2"|l | |||
|j | |||
|- | |||
!Tap | |||
| | |||
|colspan="2"|ɾ | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
<small>*/n/ is realized as [ŋ] before velars.</small> | |||
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center | |||
!Romanization | |||
!Labial | |||
!colspan="2"|Coronal | |||
!Dorsal | |||
|- | |||
!Nasal | |||
|m | |||
|colspan="3"|n | |||
|- | |||
! Plosive | |||
|p b | |||
|colspan="2"|t d | |||
|k g | |||
|- | |||
!Fricative | |||
|f v | |||
|s z | |||
|š ž | |||
|x ǧ | |||
|- | |||
!Approximant | |||
| | |||
|colspan="2"|l | |||
|j | |||
|- | |||
!Tap | |||
| | |||
|colspan="2"|r | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
===Vowels=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center | |||
!Phonology | |||
!Front | |||
!Back | |||
|- | |||
!Close | |||
|i iː | |||
|u | |||
|- | |||
!Mid | |||
|e eː | |||
|o oː | |||
|- | |||
!Open | |||
|colspan="2"|ä äː | |||
|} | |||
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center | |||
!Romanization | |||
!Front | |||
!Back | |||
|- | |||
!Close | |||
|i ī | |||
|u | |||
|- | |||
!Mid | |||
|e ē | |||
|o ō | |||
|- | |||
!Open | |||
|colspan="2"|a ā | |||
|} | |||
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[[Category:Wasc languages]] | |||