Nankôre

Nankôre
Nankôre
Pronunciation	[/nan.ko:re/]
Created by	–
Native to	Nanhoshka Kôya
Native speakers	3,232,430 (2014)
Language family	Language Isolate Nankôre
Official status
Official language in	Koya Island
Regulated by	Nankore
Language codes
ISO 639-1	nk
ISO 639-2	nnk
ISO 639-3	nnk

Background

Nankôre, from the words nan ("man, human") and kôre ("speech"), is spoken by the Nanhoshka people of Koya Island. There are two main dialects, the Konishmak, located in the Northeastern Coastal Mountains, and the Sapshira, encompassing the western and southern parts of the country. The dialects differ chiefly in pronunciation and differences in certain lexical items, but are otherwise mutually intelligible.

Canonical word order is SOV, OSV is rarely encountered except in ceremonial language, but the verb is obligatorily sentence final.

I'll get back to Nankore later to make it conform to the language format policy. For now, here's a sample text:

Atemana uyasi, mahun teyaroa teh hekaci u tempa wasin te taa'. Okaaka ta techam aci tah sinehne ka ante ta anene yoopani ta asin te taa. Ta hekaci taa. Cis ani taa'. Un kayo taa pahke te oman kusuan.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p	t				k
Fricative			s	ʃ			h
Approximant	w				j
Flap			r

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ɪ		u
Mid	e		o
Open		ɑ