Feqhuv
Feqhuv | |
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Language family | Isolate |
Writing system | Latin |
Official status | |
Spoken in | Twanland |
Regulated by | Iris |
Speaker | |
Demonym | Feqhuvi |
Endonym | Fex̣wv̇ |
Number of speakers | 1 |
Technical information | |
Usage | Official language, Recordkeeping |
Language code | FQV |
Feqhuv (natively Fex̣wv̇ [ˈɸe.χɯʋ𐞕]) is a language isolate spoken on the southern coast of the Amujan Sea and is one of the 4 official languages of the Republic of Twanland.
Phonology
Consonants
Feqhuv has 40 consonants, of which 15 are what are called "pyro-aspirated" consonants, which are pronounced like non-pyro aspirated consonants, but the breathiness is accompanied by the speaker using a flint and steel or firing a Flaming bow as an alternative to breathing fire.
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- /ȝ/ is described as a "glottal tap", a sound normally impossible to pronounce.
Vowels
Feqhuv has 7 vowels:
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
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High | i | ɨ ⟨u⟩ | ɯ ⟨w⟩ |
Middle | e | ə ⟨y⟩ | ɤ ⟨o⟩ |
Low | a |