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Hohojiro
Hohojiro(Hohojiro Syllabic Writing T̬̊T̬̊V̝̈Ÿ̩; Hohojiro Latinization Hohoj́idi; Hohojiro Cyrillization Hohoђиди. Literally "Hoho folk speech") is an Eastern Clanic language continuum, which includes Hojiro, Wajiro, Ujiro, and Injiro (also, many natives include Najiro as well) languages. Natively spoken by Hohojiro people since 10278, when the First Hohojiro Union was created. There's "Classic Hohojiro" language, which is mostly a mix of most common features between languages within continuum
Hohojiro | |
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T̬̊T̬̊V̝̈X̩̊ | |
Pronunciation | [ho.ho.'ɟi.ɾo] |
Created by | Tilt5951 |
Date | 9870s |
Native to | Hohojiro Republic(official), Free State of Najiro(second official language) |
Ethnicity | Hohojiro people |
Native speakers | ~1092865(in Hohojiro Republic) (12036) |
Clanic language family
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Early forms | Proto-Clanic
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Background
Hohojiro language is a Eastern Clanic language, that is a branch of Clanic language family of Clani-Cephalopodic language marcofamily
Phonology
Hohojiro has 21 consonant phonemes
Consonants
Bilabial | Labio-Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||||
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Plosives | p | t, d | c, ɟ | k, g | |||||||||||||||
Nasals | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
Trills | r | ||||||||||||||||||
Taps and Flaps | ɓ | ⱱ | ɾ | ||||||||||||||||
Fricatives | f | s, z | ʃ | ç | χ | h | |||||||||||||
Approximants | w | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral Approximants | ʎ |
Notes:
- Hohojiro language has no sound of /m/, but uses /ɓ/ instead if needed
Vowels
Front | Middle | Near-back | Back | ||||||
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Close | i | ɨ | |||||||
Near-Close | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | |||||||
Mid | ə | ||||||||
Open-mid | ʌ, ɔ | ||||||||
Open | a | ɑ, ɒ |
Prosody
The stress in the Hohojiro language is on the penultimate syllable of the word, if it's native
Grammar
Syntax
In Hohojiro syntax is mostly OVS.
Nouns
Cases
Hohojiro has 18 cases:
- Nominative
- Ergative
- Dative
- Accusative
- Instrumental
- Locative
- Genitive
- Ablative
- Vocative
- Allative
- Temporalis
- Inessive
- Illative
- Elative
- Adessive
- Subessive
- Translative
- Terminative
- Superessive