| Chimptongue Ƈyŋpt.nč | |||||||||||||
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| Type | Conlang | ||||||||||||
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| Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
| Declensions | No | ||||||||||||
| Conjugations | No | ||||||||||||
| Genders | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||||||||||||
| Case | Number | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||||||||||||
| Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
| Person | Number | ||||||||||||
| Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
| Meta-information | |||||||||||||
| Progress | 0% | ||||||||||||
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| Creator | IsabelleAnmlCsng | ||||||||||||
Classification and Dialects
Phonology
Consonants
The consonant inventory of Chimptongue is very strange, though just barely reasonable. As shown, it has very little sounds, all of them being part of various European languages.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Plosive | p | t | k g | q | ||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | ʁ | h | |
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | (w) |
Note: "ng" becomes /ŋ/ when at the end of a word, similar to English.
Vowels
A 5-vowel system mixed in with two random vowels. Not so bad.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Near-high | ɪ | ||
| High-mid | e | o | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Low | a |
Phonotactics
Writing System
Chimptongue uses the Latin Alphabet script, though with many diacritics, as easily shown. Lots of c.
| Letter | ŋ | n | p | t | ĉ | č | ƙ | c | ć | ç | r | h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | m | n | p | t | k | g | q | s | ʃ | x | ʁ | h |
| Letter | ƈ | w | l | y(h) | u(h) | i(h) | e(h) | o(h) | . .. | a(h) | ||
| Sound | t͡ʃ | w | l | i(ː) | u(ː) | ɪ(ː) | e(ː) | o(ː) | ə(ː) | a(ː) |