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Revision as of 19:55, 6 July 2014

Kunesian is a language which is spoken on the same conworld as Bearlandic. It is an isolating language with a rather complex phoneme inventory and a quite messy but still predictable orthography. That is, the orthography is predictable to those who are familiar with it. The language is said to possess every sound you can hear in the jungles of Kunesia, including the sound of the vomiting after eating some poisonous berry (/χ/), that of spitting out the next poisonous berry (/p͡çᶣ/), that of a growling tiger (/rʶ/), and that of a hissing snake, which is simply /s/.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolo-palatal Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular
Plain Palatalised Plain Labial
Nasal m n ɳ ɲ ŋ (ɴ)
Stop Aspirated ʈʰ
Voiceless p t ʈ c k q
Voiced b d ɖ ɟ g ɢ
Affricate Voiceless t͡ɕ p͡çᶣ
Voiced d͡z d͡ʑ ɖ͡ʐ ɟ͡ʝ
Fricative ɸ s, θ ɕ ʂ ç çᶣ χ
Approximant β j ɥ ɰ ʁ
Rhotic ɾ ɽ͡r
Lateral l ɭ ʎ ɫ

Vowels

Front Cenral Back
Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
Close i y ~ ʉ ɨ ~ ɯ u
Mid ɛ ~ e œ ~ ø ʌ ~ ɤ ɔ ~ o
Near-open æ
Open a aɨ̯

Pitch-accent

Kunesian has a pitch-accent in which the stressed syllable can have either high or low pitch.

Creaky voice

All vowels distinguish modal and creaky voice.