Xanian

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Xanian
Xâkömari
Xâkömari.svg
Xâkömari
Pronunciation[/ʒakømɑrɪ/]
Created by
Native toXania
Native speakers5.2 million
334,656 overseas (2014)
Xanic
  • Xanian
Standard form
Official status
Official language in
Xania
Language codes
ISO 639-1xa
ISO 639-2xan
ISO 639-3xan
Location of nations where Xanian is a spoken language
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Xanian (Xâkömari, /ʒakømɑrɪ/) is a North Atlantic language spoken by 5.6 million people, and the official language of Xania. It is a member of the Xanic language family, and largely regarded as a language isolate, the second largest of its type in the world after Korean. For centuries, the Xanian language has remained distinct and separate from the rest of the languages around it, with little influence on the language until Xania's emergence into the world community in the late-1800s. Virtually nothing is known of the language's prehistory, and all information on when it first appeared in Xania exists, leaving many to speculate that the language arrived with its current inhabitants, the Xanians.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes
Bilabial Labio-
dental
Alveolar Post-
alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop t d k
Affricate
Fricative v s z ʃ ʒ h
Approximant
(Lateral)
j
ɹ l

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Back
Close [i]
Near-close [ɪ]
Close-mid [ø]
Mid [e] [o]
Near-open [ɐ]
Open [a] [ɑ]

Stress, rhythm and intonation

Alphabet

Xanian alphabet
A a  â D d E e H h I i Ī  ī J j K k L l M m
[a] [ɐ] [e] [d] [h] [i] [ɪ] [dʒ] [k] [l] [m]
N n O o Ö ö R r S s Š š T t V v X x Y y Z z
[n] [o] [ø] [ɹ] [s] [ʃ] [t] [v] [ʒ] [j] [z]

Grammar

Vocabulary

Writing system

Study by non-native speakers