Yakkanogi

Notice:

This ŋarticle is under construction.

Yakkanogi
Language family	Tsai-Chire
Writing system	Tanswaiy, sometimes Latin
Official status
Spoken in	Kingdom of Kyaw Cen
Regulated by	Yakkaongi Nation
Speaker
Demonym	Yakkanogi
Technical information
Language code	YAK

Yakkanogi is a language spoken by the Yakkanogi people in eastern Shingtsun, more precisely around the Svérigé, Nagjil the Yakkanogi Nation in northern Cistsaia.

Orthography

Like Kyawcenni, Yakkanogi uses the Tanswaiy script. But due to the phonotactics of Yakkanogibeing much less restrictive than the one of Kyawcenni, the coda consonant letters are not only used for the coda, but for any consonant not followed by a vowel.

Consonant letters

Tanswaiy	Latin	Phoneme
󰨁	b	b
󰨂	c	s
󰨄	d	d
󰫟	f	f
󰨅	g	c (onset) ç (coda)
󰨆	h	h
󰨈	k	k
󰮺󰨈	kk	kː
󰨉	l	l
󰨊	m	m
󰨋	n	n
󰨌	ng	ŋ
󰨍	p	p
󰮺󰨍	pp	pː
󰨃	q	ʔ
󰨎	r	ɾ
󰨏	s	θ
󰨑	t	t
󰮺󰨑	tt	tː
󰮵󰨂	ts	ts
󰫒	v	v
󰨒	x	ç (onset only)
󰨓	y	j
󰨔	z	ð

Vowel diacritics

Tanswaiy	Latin	Phoneme
󰨀	a	a
󰨀󰮤	au	au
󰨕	e	e
󰨕󰮤	ea	ea
󰨕󰮷	ei	ɛi
󰨪	i	i
󰨪󰮤	ia	iɘ
󰨪󰮷	iy	ɘi
󰨿	o	o
󰩔	u	u
󰩔󰨀	ua	uə
󰬻	y	ɘ

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Guttural
Plosive	p	b	θ	ð	t	d	c	k		ʔ
Nasal		m				n			ŋ
Fricative	f	v			s		ç			h
Affricate
Liquid					ɾ	l	j

The plosives p, t and k can be geminated.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɘ	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Diphthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	iə	ɘi	uə
Mid	ea
Open	ɛi		au