Western Léna
| Western Léna | |
|---|---|
| Language family | Hakhpha |
| Writing system | Latin Alphabet Cyrillic Alphabet |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Hárǝsi, Cékwely Kwojongoka (unofficial minority language) |
| Speaker | |
| Demonym | Ijhenggínga, Lénga Offéstǝnóm |
| Number of speakers | unknown |
| Technical information | |
| Language code | GIG |
Western Léna, natively Ijhenggínga, is a Western Hakhpha language or dialect spoken in on the western coast of Hárǝsi. It is hotly debated whether this is a separate language from Standard Léna, though external linguists tend to conclude that they are closely-related (but ultimately not mutually intelligible) languages. Ijhenggínga is primarily spoken in the Cékwely Kwojongoka (Ijh.: Qunjongok aihá Céqez).
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | plain | m | n | ŋ ~ ɴ | |||
| labialised | ŋʷ | ||||||
| Plosive | plain | p b | t d | k g | |||
| labialised | kʷ gʷ | ||||||
| Affricate | c͡ɕ ɟ͡ʑ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s z | ɕ ʑ | x ɣ | h | ||
| Liquid | plain | w | r | j | (w) | ||
| labialised | rʷ | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ʎ | |||||