Dahaz language

Dahaz
Kharadahaz, Dahaz avän Dahaz
Pronunciation	/'daʷhaβæ/
Region	Vaniu
Ethnicity	Dahaz people
Native speakers	40 million  (2015-2017)
Language family	Vaniuan Eastern Vaniuan Dahaz
Early forms:	Proto-Vaniuan Proto-Eastern Vaniuan Old Dahaz Middle Dahaz Classical Dahaz Dahaz
Dialects	Shar, Shanga and Tarash dialects
Writing system	Vaniuan script, Mahavic script
Official status
Official language in	Khara-Dahaz
Regulated by	Imperial Lenguistic Council
CWS code	DAD
Dark blue = majority; light blue = minority

Dahaz (Dahaz, /'daʷhaβæ/) is a Vaniuan language spoken in Khara-Dahaz. It has 40 million native speakers and is mainly spoken by the Dahaz people in Khara-Dahaz and elsewhere in Vaniu. Dahaz belongs to the Eastern Vaniuan branch of the Vaniuan language family. Main influences can be attributed to Mahavic languages and Bothanian with some loanwords mainly of Shesin and Sotanese origin. The most noticeable distinctions between Dahaz and other Vaniuan languages is the large corpus of Mahavic loanwords and a heavily Labialized and Palatalised phonology with certain features such as possession which is rather uncommon among Vaniuan languages.

Name

The language itself is natively known as Dahaz avän, Kharadahaz or simply Dahaz, pronounced /'daʷhaβæ/, /xɑra'daʷha/, /'daʷha/ accordingly.

Phonology

Consonants

The following tables lists the consonants and vowels of the standard Shar Koyu dialect. The consonants enclosed in parentheses are considered as allophones.

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Labio-velar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m			n (nʲ)					ŋ
Plosive	p b (bʲ)			t (tʲ) d (dʲ)					k (kʲ) g (gʲ)	q
Fricative	β	f	ð (ðʲ)	s z	ʃ (ʃʲ)	ʐ			x (xʲ) (xʷ)	ʁ	h (hʲ)
Affricate
Approximant								j	w
Rhotic				r
Lateral app.				l (lʲ)

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i (i:) y		ɨ		u (u:)
Near-close
Close-mid	ø				o (o:)
Mid
Open-mid	ɛ (ʲɛ) (ɛʷ) (ʷɛ)
Near-open	æ
Open	a (aʷ) (ʷa)				ɑ