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[[Cagasa/Lexicon|Lexicon]]
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''Kargasser''; pronounced [kagasa]) is a divergent [[Wiebian]] lect spoken in Cagasazumi (''Schargassersümme''). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is inspired by Japanese, Bantu and [[Clofabosin]].
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''Schargasser''; pronounced [kagasa]) is a divergent [[Wiebian]] lect spoken in Cagasazumi (''Schargassersümme''). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is inspired by Japanese, Bantu and [[Clofabosin]].


*V:C > VnC
*V:C > VnC

Revision as of 16:08, 27 February 2016

Lexicon

Bentovian/Swadesh list (Schargasser; pronounced [kagasa]) is a divergent Wiebian lect spoken in Cagasazumi (Schargassersümme). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is inspired by Japanese, Bantu and Clofabosin.

  • V:C > VnC
  • öCe > oCi
  • üCe > uCi
  • -er > -a, -el > -o

Numbers:

  • 1: wahm - native [vamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ham]
  • 2: disser - native [ditsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʁei]
  • 3: narg - native [nagga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki]
  • 4: đauf - native [ɖoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [dʁa]
  • 5: säles - native [selli]; Kurmo-Kagasa [zem]
  • 6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tam]
  • 7: rut - native [uttu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [latu]
  • 8: lerz - native [letsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [lja]
  • 9: pfarb - native [fappa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [pʁapu]
  • 10: kier - native [keː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [kʁa]

Phonology

Kagasa is a mora-timed language like Japanese.

Consonants

Bentovian/Swadesh list consonants
Labial Alveolar Retroflex Dorsal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ [ɳ] [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ /ʈ/ c, k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ d /ɖ/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ s /s/
voiced v /v/ z /z/ r /ʁ/
Lat. app. l /l/

Plain stops are realized as voiced stops after a vowel or a nasal.

The placeless nasal /ɴ/ only occurs in the syllable coda. It is realized as a syllabic homorganic nasal before a stop or a nasal, and as lengthening and nasalization of the previous vowel otherwise. The sequence /ɴɭ/ is realized as /ɭɭ/.

Vowels

Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i /i/ ī /iː/ u /u/ ū /uː/
Mid e /e/ ē /eː/ o /o/ ō /oː/
Open a /a/ ā /aː/

Phonotactics

The maximal syllable structure is (C(j))VV or (C(j))VN.