Kaipanese Language

"Kaipanese" and "Kaipaī" redirect here. For the country, see Kaipa.
This article contains incomplete sections. Revisions should be made to correct the lack of information. (May 2025)

Kaipanese
Language family	Aomoic
Era	2025 to present
Writing system	Kanji (native words) Katakana (grammar, names, and loanwords)
Official status
Spoken in	The Republic of Kaipa
Speaker
Demonym	Kaipanese
Number of speakers	Unknown
Technical information
Usage	Government language Colloquial language
Language code	???

Kaipanese (カイパ語 Kaipagon, [ka.i.pa.gon]) is the official language spoken in the Republic of Kaipa. It is a member of the Aomoic language family, alongside the Aomoī and Lukan languages.

History

This section is incomplete. (May 2025)

Distribution

This section is incomplete. (May 2025)

Phonology

Consonants

Kaipanese uses the following consonant inventory:

		Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar-Uvular
Plosive	Voiced	/b/	/d/			/g/
	Voiceless	/p/	/t/			/k/
Fricative	Voiced		/z/	/ʒ/ ⟨j⟩ [dʒ]¹
	Voiceless		/s/	/ʃ/ ⟨c⟩ [tʃ]¹	( /ç/ ⟨h⟩ )²	/x~h/ ⟨h⟩
Nasal		/m/	/n/			/ŋ/ ⟨n⟩
Liquid		/ʋ/ ⟨w⟩	/ɾ/ ⟨r⟩		/j/ ⟨y⟩

¹ ⟨j⟩ and ⟨c⟩ are both affricates word-initially and fricatives elsewhere.
² ⟨h⟩ is pronounced /ç/ after front vowels /i/ and /e/.

Vowels

Kaipanese uses the following vowel inventory:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i/ ⟨i⟩		/ɯ/ ⟨u⟩
Mid	/e/ ⟨e⟩		/o/ ⟨o⟩
Open		/a/ ⟨a⟩

Phonotactics

Kaipanese syllables follow a (C)V(N) structure, meaning most of its syllables are open, and the ones that are not open end with a nasal consonant.

Grammar

This section is incomplete. (May 2025)

Word Order

Primarily, Kaipanese is a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) language.

Vocabulary

This section is incomplete. (May 2025)

Orthography

Kaipanese is written almost exclusively in Japanese Kanji and Katakana characters, with a few exceptions in Neyru City on Flower Island, which use Latin text to supplement the writing for non-Kaipanese citizens.

Example Text

The following is a translation of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Kaipanese, Japanese, and English:

	Example Text
Kaipanese カイパ語	Script	incomplete translation
	Romanized	incomplete translation
Japanese 日本語	Script	すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利とについて平等である。 人間は、理性と良心とを授けられており、互いに同胞の精神をもって行動しなければならない。
	Romanized	Subete no ningen wa, umarenagara ni shite jiyū de ari, katsu, songen to kenri to ni tsuite byōdō de aru. Ningen wa, risei to ryōshin to o sazukerarete ori, tagai ni dōhō no seishin o motte kōdō shinakereba naranai.
English		All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood