Yakkanogi
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| 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, Nagil the Yakkanogi Nation in northern Cistsaia.
Orthography
Like Kyawcenni, Yakkanogi uses the Tanswaiy script. But due to the phonotactics of Yakkanogi being 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 |
| | á | aː |
| | au | au |
| | e | e |
| | é | eː |
| | ea | ea |
| | ei | ɛi |
| | i | i |
| | í | iː |
| | ia | iɘ |
| | iy | ɘi |
| | o | o |
| | ó | oː |
| | u | u |
| | ú | uː |
| | ua | uə |
| | y | ɘ |
| | ý | ɘː |
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 |
Every vowel can be geminated. This is written by adding a after the vowel in the Tanswaiy script and with an acute accent on the vowel in the Latin alphabet. In syllables that don't have a coda, monophthongs become geminated.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iə | ɘi | uə |
| Mid | ea | ||
| Open | ɛi | au |
Syntax
Yakkanogi usually uses SVO word order, but other orders are common due to the case system. Adjectives come before nouns.
Morphology
Cases
Yakkanogi has 13 cases:
| Case | Usage | Suffix |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Subject of a sentence | |