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Revision as of 18:04, 25 November 2024
Puan | |
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Language family | Isolate |
Writing system | Puan Script? |
Official status | |
Spoken in | Kyawcenni Pua |
Speaker | |
Endonym | ??? |
Exonym | Puan, Pyuwan[1] |
Technical information | |
Language code | PYW |
The Puan or Pyuwan language /ˈpju.(w)ən/ (Kyawcenni: Bêde Pyuwane) is a language isolate spoken in eastern Archipelagia in the Kyawcenni territory of Kyawcenni Pua.
Phonology
Consonants
The romanization written in angle brackets includes both capitalizations of the letter.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar (Hard) | Alveolar (Soft) | Postalveolar/Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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Nasals | m <Mm> | n <Nn> | nʲ <NJ nȷ> | |||||
Plosives | (p <Pp>)¹ b <Bb> |
t <Tt> d <Dd> |
tʲ <TJ tȷ> | tʃ <Ċċ> dʒ <Ġġ> |
k <Kk> ɡ <Gg> |
q <ꟼq> | ʔ <Qϱ> | |
Fricatives | f <Ff> | θ <Cc> ð <Ðđ> |
s <Ss> z <Zz> |
sʲ <SJ sȷ> | ʃ <Ṡṡ> ʒ <Żż> |
χ <Xx> | ħ~h <Ħħ> ʕ~ɦ <Hh> | |
Trills | r <Rr> | ʀ <Ṙṙ> | ||||||
Liquids | l <Ll> | lʲ <LJ lȷ> | j <Jj> | w <Ww> |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i, iː <i, ī/y> | u, uː <u, ū> | |
Mid | ə, əː <e, ē> | o, o: <o, ō> | |
Low | æ <a> | ɑː <ā> |
¹Only found in Kyawcenni loanwords
Puan Script

Puan was planned to be written in the eponymous Puan Script, which was designed by Kyawcenni Quing Marcy I and was inspired by the Xadwg Script.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ “Pyuwan” is the Kyawcenni name of the language. This spelling is sometimes used in English to distinguish it from the Puan people.