Naibas

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Naibas
Naibas
Naibas kaulas
Pronunciation[[nɑɪˈbas̺]
[nɑɪˈbas̺ kɑʊˈlas̺]]
Created bypuyongechi
Date2020
SettingNaiaba
EthnicityWhite, Naiabian
Native speakers90,000,000 (1910)
Argo-Kigodic
  • Argurian
    • Niztanian
      • South-Ilakian
        • West-Nanaric
          • Naibas
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Naibas (IPA: /nɑɪˈbas̺/ or, less frequently, /ˈnai.bɑs̺/. Also Naibas kaulas (IPA: /nɑɪˈbas̺ kɑʊˈlas̺/)) is a Niztanian con-language and the official language of Naiaba, a con-country in West Arguria. It is spoken by approximately 50 million native speakers (1910) and 40 million L2 speakers around the world, being the most spoken Niztanian language, and the second most spoken Argurian language. It is an agglutinative language with an ergative-absolutive alignment and a SOV order. It was created by Reddit user puyongechi in late 2020.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal /m/
/n/ /ɲ/ /ŋ/
Plosive /p/ /b/
/t/ /d/ /c/ /ɟ/ /k/ /g/ /ʔ/
Affricate /tʃ/
Fricative /f/ /s̻/ /s̺/ /ʃ/ /ʝ/
Approximant /β/
Lateral /l/
Rhotic /r/ /ɾ/
  • /ŋ/ occurs when n- is followed by -i- and another vowel (nia, nie, nio, niu)
  • The glottal stop /ʔ/ occurs when a stressed diphthong precedes a stop or when a stressed syllable precedes a palatal plosive (eitto /ˈeiʔ.co/; koddi /ˈkɔʔ.ɟɪ/)
  • There is distinction between the three sibilants /s̻/, /s̺/ and /ʃ/.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close /i/ [ɪ] /u/ /ɔ/
Mid /e/ [ə] [o]
Open /a/ [ɑ]
  • [ɪ], [o] and [ɑ] only occur when i, o and a are unstressed respectively. In some dialects of Naibas, [ʊ] occurs when u is unstressed.
  • When e is unstressed and right before a stress, some speakers pronounce [ɪ] and some [ə].

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources