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{{PAGENAME}} is a zonal auxlang<ref>http://conlangery.com/2013/01/14/conlangery-80-zonal-auxlangs/</ref> intended to be quickly learnable, readily comprehensible, and mutually communicative between persons of the [[w:East Asian cultural sphere]].  It uses Chinese characters for all of its native writing, with some forms being simplified according to the [[w:Shinjitai]]/新字体 standards of Japan.  [[w:Hangul]] is used for foreign sounds or phonetic spelling.  It is not [[w:Tone (linguistics)|tonal]], mostly [[w:Analytic language|analytic]], [[w:Subject–verb–object|SVO]], [[w:Topic-prominent language|topic-prominent]], uses [[w:Classifier (linguistics)|classifiers]], is [[w:Pro-drop language|pro-drop]], and uses postpositions.

== Phonology ==

{{PAGENAME}} has 5 vowels and 12 consonants.  Immediately upon seeking a common ground across East Asia, one encounters a great deal of diversity.  Japanese is definitely the outlier, with the most restrictive sound inventory of all.  Only Japanese does not contrast aspirated and unaspirated stops<ref>http://wals.info/feature/4A#4/28.77/115.93</ref>, instead opting for the more European-sounding voicing contrast<ref>http://wals.info/feature/5A#4/25.40/121.38</ref>.  This distinction is difficult for Japanese-speakers to learn, but if the feature is not contrastive in affricates, it is easier<ref>http://www.conforg.fr/acoustics2008/cdrom/data/fa2005-budapest/paper/505-1.pdf</ref>.  The operating principle of sound selection is, '''no other sounds than Japanese has, but including Japanese allophones'''.  Japanese and Korean speakers will experience the same difficulty with /l/ vs /ɾ/ as they do with Europeans.