Gìdago
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| Gìdago | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /gi˧˥dago/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | none |
| Species: | Human |
| Spoken: | Gimá |
| Total speakers: | 13 million |
| Writing system: | Latin |
| Genealogy: | Gan Language Family North Ganic |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | ILuvEire |
| Created: | February 2009 |
Gìdago is a daughter of the first language (Soskra) to really split off from Ginhtköl. Therefore it has the most simplified and changed grammar and phonology.
Phonology
If you compare this phonology with the phonology of Ginhtköl, you'll see MANY changes.
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Velar | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋng | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | d | g | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | v | ð | z | ʒj | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
In the chart, I wrote in the orthography, where it's different from IPA.
Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||
| High-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
Tones
| Name | Description | Diacritic | Example | Sample vowel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ngang 'level' | mid level | (no mark) | ma 'ghost' | Template:Audio |
| huyền 'hanging' | low falling (often breathy) | ` (grave accent) | mà 'but' | Template:Audio |
| sắc 'sharp' | high rising | ´ (acute accent) | má 'cheek, mother (southern)' | Template:Audio |
| hỏi 'asking' | mid dipping-rising | ̉ (hook) | mả 'tomb, grave' | Template:Audio |
| ngã 'tumbling' | high breaking-rising | ˜ (tilde) | mã 'horse (Sino-Vietnamese), code' | Template:Audio |
| nặng 'heavy' | low falling constricted (short length) | ̣ (dot below) | mạ 'rice seedling' | Template:Audio |
