Bentovian/Swadesh list
Kagasa (Schargass; pronounced /kʰakasa/ [kʰagasa]) is a divergent Wiebian lect. A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is intended to be vaguely Japano-Bantu.
- V:C > VnC
- öCe > eCo
- üCe > iCo
- -er > -a, -el > -o
Numbers:
- 1: wahm - native [wamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [haN]
- 2: diƨƨer - native [tisa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tei]
- 3: narg - native [naŋga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki]
- 4: đauf - native [ɖɭoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ga]
- 5: säliƨ - native [seɭɭi]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ʑeN]
- 6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʰaN]
- 7: rut - native [undu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɾatu]
- 8: lerz - native [ɾeNsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ɾja]
- 9: pfarb - native [hamba]; Kurmo-Kagasa [pʰjapu]
- 10: kier - native [kʰeː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [kja]
Phonology
Kagasa is a mora-timed language like Japanese.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Dorsal | Placeless | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m /m/ | n /n/ | (/ɴ/) | ||||
| Stops | |||||||
| plain | b /p~b/ | d /t~d/ | ḍ /ʈ~ɖ/ | j [t͡ɕ~d͡ʑ] | g /k~ɡ/ | ||
| aspirated | p /pʰ/ | t /tʰ/ | ṭ /ʈʰ/ | ch [t͡ɕʰ] | k /kʰ/ | ||
| Fricatives | s /s/ | sh [ɕ] | h /h/ | ||||
| Approximants | w /w/ | y /j/ | |||||
| Liquids | r /ɾ~ɭ/ | ||||||
Plain stops are realized as voiced stops after a vowel or a nasal.
The placeless nasal /ɴ/ only occurs in the syllable coda. It is realized as a homorganic nasal before a stop or a nasal, and as lengthening and nasalization of the previous vowel otherwise. The sequence /ɴɭ/ is realized as /ɭɭ/.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i /i/ | ī /iː/ | u /u/ | ū /uː/ | ||
| Mid | e /e/ | ē /eː/ | o /o/ | ō /oː/ | ||
| Open | a /a/ | ā /aː/ | ||||
Phonotactics
(C(j))V(N)