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Hapese is the language of the Hap (alt. Hamp, Amp, Ap, Ãp) people. Having a very shallow written history, the language is not well attested in earlier stages, but appears to be an isolate with some possible loans and Wanderwörter in its lexicon. Complicating things further, the language appears to previously have had well defined dialects which have merged on several occasions, resulting in many sets of variants and similar-looking synonyms across the language. This is likely due to the semi-nomadic nature of the Hap people.
== Phonology ==
=== Consonants ===
==== Onsets (Descriptive) ====
The following consonants are allowed as onsets in most variants of the Hap language:
{| class="wikitable" style="background:Floralwhite"
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"|
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Labial
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Dental
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Palatal
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Dorsal
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"|Guttural
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Plosive
| '''p''' || t ||style="color:Sandybrown"| (c, zh) || '''k''' || (q)
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Fricative
| ('''f/ɸ'''/[ʍ]) || '''s''', z (θ, ð) ||style="color:Sandybrown"| (sh, zh, yh, yhu [ɥ̊]) || || h
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Nasal
| m || n, '''l''', (r) ||style="color:Sandybrown"| (ñ) || ng ||
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Approximant
| '''w''' (v/β/ⱱ) ||style="color:Sandybrown"| ('''r''') || '''y''', yu (ɥ) ||  ||
|}
:<sup><span style="color:Sandybrown">'''Sandybrown'''</span> cells: dialectal, rare, extinct, or otherwise not an important part of the language.</sup>
:<sup>'''Bolded''' phones: these tend to predominate over other possible allophones.</sup>
Due to the effects of nasal harmony, lenition and palatalisation in some substrate dialects, sonorants and fricatives are common onsets.
Certain allophones of historically possible phones will tend to dominate. For example, [c, θ, ɥ̊] will tend to be replaced with /s/ (which is why /s/ is bolded in the table above).
==== Onsets (Standardised) ====
For the most part, the following is considered an essential list of phonemes to communicate in the language effectively:
{| class="wikitable" style="background:Floralwhite"
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"|
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Labial
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Dental
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Palatal
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Dorsal
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"|Guttural
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Plosive
| p || t ||style="color:Sandybrown"| zh [tɕ ~ tʃ ~ ʈʂ ~ dʑ etc] || k ||
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Fricative
| f || s, z ||style="color:Sandybrown"| sh [ɕ ~ ʃ ~ ʂ] || || h
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Nasal
| m || n, l || || ng ||
|-
!style="background:Blanchedalmond"| Approximant
| w ||style="color:Sandybrown"| r || y ||  ||
|}
:<sup><span style="color:Sandybrown">'''Sandybrown'''</span> cells: not as essential but still used</sup>
==== Codas (Descriptive) ====
There are significantly less viable codas in the language than onsets.
{| class="wikitable" style="background:Ivory"
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"|
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Labial
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Dental
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Palatal
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Dorsal
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"|Guttural
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Plosive
| p || t || || (k) || ʔ, (q)
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Fricative
| ||style="color:Gold"| (θ, ð, s, sh) || || || h
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Nasal
| m, m<sup>p</sup>/<sup>m</sup>p || n, (n<sup>d</sup>) || || ng, ng<sup>k</sup> || ɴʔ
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Approximant
| u ||style="color:Gold"| (r) || i ||  ||
|}
One notable feature in Hap is the post-stopped nasal codas. Of these, /mp/ is the most common, and /nd/ the least. Even /ngk/ is losing ground to /ng/, /ɴʔ/, and /k/. While they may appear imposing in writing, these are simply the same as the nasal + plosive clusters at the end of English words (e.g. clump, tent, Frank), but they are analysed as a single unit for phonological reasons (though not without debate).
On the subject of /k/: /k/ is often replaced with /h/ or /ʔ/, as is increasingly /t/. /p/ remains relatively stable.
The /r/ coda phoneme is only used emphatically and for fun. It used to be the coda version of an underlying /l/ or /r/ coda, but since it is no longer pronounced normally and not reflected in the orthography, the phoneme can be inserted onto the end of nearly any non-high open vowel.
==== Codas (Standardised) ====
{| class="wikitable" style="background:Ivory"
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"|
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Labial
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Dental
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Palatal
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Dorsal
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"|Guttural
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Plosive
| p || t || || (k) || ʔ
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Fricative
| || || || || h
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Nasal
| m, m<sup>p</sup> || n || || ng, ng<sup>k</sup> || ɴʔ
|-
!style="background:Lemonchiffon"| Approximant
| u || || i ||  ||
|}
=== Vowels ===
While the vowels in any given word may vary, for the most part Hapese vowels are more stable than the consonants, dialectally speaking.
==== Monophthongs ====
{| class="wikitable" style="background:#fafffa;text-align:center;"
|-
!style="background:Honeydew"|
!style="background:Honeydew"| Front
!style="background:Honeydew"| Central
!style="background:Honeydew"| Back
|-
!style="background:Honeydew"| Close
| i ||colspan="2"| u
|-
!style="background:Honeydew"| Mid
| é || ə || o
|-
!style="background:Honeydew"| Open
|colspan="3"| a
|}
==== Diphthongs ====
{| class="wikitable" style="background:#fafffa;text-align:center;"
|-
!style="background:Honeydew"|
!style="background:Honeydew"| Main pronunciation
!style="background:Honeydew"| Allophones
!style="background:Honeydew"| Notes
|-
| ai || '''ɑɪ''' || äɪ, (æɪ, e(:)) || Colloquially both merges with and diverges from éi
|-
| éi || '''ɛɪ''' || eɪ, æɪ, ''e(:)'' || Colloquially merges with /e/
|-
| əi || əɪ || eɪ, əi || Tends to merge with i and éi
|-
| oi || ɔɪ || oɪ, ɔe, oe ||
|-
| ui || ʉi || ʊɪ, uɪ || Tends to merge with /(C)wéi/
|-
| au || '''ao''' || æo, au, aʊ, (o(:)) || Colloquially merges with /o/
|-
| éu || '''ew''' || eo, (ø:) ||
|-
| əu || əu || ew, ou Tends to merge with u and ou, rarely realised as a syllabic velar lateral
|-
| iu || iʉ || ɪw, iu || Tends to merge with /(C)yu/
|-
| ou || ɔw || ɔʉ, ''o(:)'' || Colloquially merges with /o/, also influenced by English
|}
Final -u in these diphthongs is sometimes realised as /w/, which is interpreted varyingly as either a closure and rounding of the lips, compression, or velarisation (with some lateralisation thrown in, a feature picked up by contact with other languages - cf. the dark L in English and Portuguese).


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== Dictionary ==
== Dictionary ==
[[User:Ceige/Hapese/Wordlist|Hapese Wordlist]]
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-I9QV5nk15DB1Tsgb4NUVAk97zOiD9W9VpAyHsAOllI/edit?usp=sharing|Google Sheets wordlist]


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== Dolgopolsky & Swadesh-Yakhontov Lists ==
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