Kkhalonan language
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| Kkhalonan | |
|---|---|
| Khămano Kkhalonăn | |
| Pronunciation | [/xəmano kxalonən/] |
| Created by | Siddartha Ong |
| Setting | Crimson Dekada |
| Native to | Republic of Kkhalonan |
| Native speakers | approx. 30 million (2020) |
Early form | Old Kkhalonan
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Kkhalonan (khămano Kkhalonăn) is an Austronesian-based constructed fictional language in the Crimson Dekada universe, created by Siddartha Ong.
Introduction
Inspiration
Kkhalonan is based on Proto-Malayo-Polynesian with influences from Hokkien, Sanskrit, and to some extent Japanese.
Phonology
The phonology of Kkhalonan is heavily influenced by Malay, Kapampangan, Kawi (Old Javanese) and East Asian languages.
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar/ Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ɕ | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʑ | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | ɕ | x | (h) | |
| voiced | (v) | ɣ | |||||
| Approximant | central | j | w | ||||
| lateral | l | ||||||
| Tap/Trill | ɾ ~ r | ||||||