Keren
Keren
| Keren | |
|---|---|
| Keren | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈkɛ.ren] |
| Created by | Bari |
| Date | 2023 |
| Native to | Sand Island |
| Native speakers | 400 (2023) |
language isolate
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Early form | Old Keren
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Background
Keren in language for Kerens - people, that live on Sand Island - fictional island. Is based on amazonian proto-languages & have some proto-indo-european morphology.
Phonology
Keren has 24 phonemic consonants & 4 vowels.
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Labio-Palatal | Dorsal | Labio-Dorsal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||||||
| Stops | p | t͡s | t | t͡ʃ | k | kʷ | |||||||
| Sibilant | s | z | ʃ | ||||||||||
| Trills | r | ʀ | ʀʷ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɬ | ç | |||||||||||
| Glides | l | j | ɥ | ɰ | w | ||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ||||
| Mid | e | o | |||
| Low | a | ||||