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Revision as of 01:06, 6 February 2021
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Ethnicity | Sarkiki |
Language family | Shaelic
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Early forms: | Old Otsuki
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Writing system | Letso-Terminian script |
Official status | |
Official language in | Juhashka (Sarkik) |
CWS code | sar |
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Sarkiki (Sarkiki: sarkikim, Sarkikim), is a Milevic language spoken by the Sarkiki people of Sarkik, an autonomous region of Juhashka.
Geographic Distribution
Name
Classification
Dialects
Related languages
History
Agyur invasion
Colonial era
Standardisation
Sarkiki was first standardised in the mid-1800s by the Terminian Institute for the Languages of the East.
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Phonology
Consonants
Sarkiki distinguishes two voice-onset times among plosive and affricate consonants. The voiceless or 'fortis' set is pronounced with considerable aspiration, while the voiced or 'lenis' set is pronounced with partial or full voicing.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
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Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ |
n ⟨n⟩ |
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Plosive/Affricate | fortis | pʰ ⟨p⟩ |
tʰ ⟨t⟩ |
tʃʰ ⟨c⟩ |
kʰ ⟨k⟩ |
qʰ ⟨ǩ⟩ |
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lenis | b ⟨b⟩ |
d ⟨d⟩ |
dʒ ⟨x⟩ |
ɡ ⟨g⟩ |
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Fricative | voiceless | f ⟨f⟩ |
s ⟨s⟩ |
ʃ ⟨š⟩ |
χ ⟨h⟩ |
h ⟨q⟩ | ||
voiced | v ⟨w⟩ |
z ⟨z⟩ |
ʒ ⟨ž⟩ |
ʁ ⟨ǧ⟩ |
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Approximant | j ⟨j⟩ |
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Flap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ |
Vowels
Sarkiki has eight monophthongs.
Front | Back | |||
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unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
Close | i: ⟨í⟩ |
y: ⟨y⟩ |
u: ⟨ú⟩ | |
Near-close | ɪ ⟨i⟩ |
ʊ ⟨u⟩ | ||
Close-mid | e: ⟨é⟩ |
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Open-mid | ɛ ⟨e⟩ |
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Open | ɑ: ⟨a⟩ |
Vowels are categorised into two categories: the 'full' or long vowels, and the 'reduced' or short vowels. These two sets differ in both quantity and quality, with the reduced set being produced as considerably shorter and a more central articulation. In some dialects of Sarkiki the two high reduced vowels may be merged together in unstressed positions as [
Phonotactics
Grammar
Nouns
Animacy
Animacy in Sarkiki has largely been lost, with the three degrees of distinction present in Proto-Milevic being reduced to a simple distinction in 'natural' animacy in its use of copulas and possessive/existential verbs.
Adjectives and adverbs
Verbs
Copulae
Particles
Adpositions
Derivational morphology
Syntax
Alignment
Orthography
Sarkiki is primarily written in the Terminian alphabet, which was inherited from its days as part of the Terminian Empire. It is also rarely found written in the Mahavic alphabet.