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'''Kivatu'''(''vatu k’vatu'', <small>pronounced:</small> [[Help:IPA|[w̥atu kʼw̥atu]]]), also called '''Kiuatou''', is a [[w:Language isolate|language isolate]] spoken natively in the Kivatu Archipelago by the K’wa, Kokosi and Kikiñ people in order of population. There are a total of about 70,000 native speakers of Kivatu, with 45.5% being ethnically K’wa, 31.4% being Kokosi, 22.7% being Kikiñ and the remaining 0.4% being other unspecified ethnicities. | '''Kivatu'''(''vatu k’vatu'', <small>pronounced:</small> [[Help:IPA|[w̥atu kʼw̥atu]]]), also called '''Kiuatou''', is a [[w:Language isolate|language isolate]] spoken natively in the Kivatu Archipelago by the K’wa, Kokosi and Kikiñ people in order of population. There are a total of about 70,000 native speakers of Kivatu, with 45.5% being ethnically K’wa, 31.4% being Kokosi, 22.7% being Kikiñ and the remaining 0.4% being other unspecified ethnicities. | ||
==Phonology== | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! colspan=2 | !! Bilabial !! Coronal !! Velar !! Palatal | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | Plosive | |||
! pulmonic | |||
| p b || t d || k g || | |||
|- | |||
! ejective | |||
| pʼ bʼ || tʼ dʼ || kʼ || | |||
|- | |||
! colspan=2 | Nasal | |||
| m̥ m || n̥ n || (ŋ) || ɲ | |||
|- | |||
! colspan=2 | Trill | |||
| || r || || | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | Fricative | |||
! pulmonic | |||
| ɸ~f || s z || || rowspan=2 | ç | |||
|- | |||
! palatalised | |||
| || sʲ zʲ || | |||
|- | |||
! colspan=2 | (Lateral) Approximant | |||
| || l || w̥ w || j̥ j | |||
|} | |||
====Voiceless consonants==== | |||
Kivatu has more voiceless consonants than other languages. In particular, voiceless nasals(/m̥/ and /n̥/) and voiceless approximants(/w̥/ and /j̥/) are common in the language. Of these abnormal voiceless consonants, /w̥/ is the most common across most vocabulary, and thus has its own letter, ⟨v⟩, while the other voiceless consonants simply use the letter for their more common voiced counterpart, with a ⟨’⟩ added, e.g. ''j'' [j] and ''j’'' [j̥]. | |||
===Vowels=== | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! !! Front !! Central !! Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| i || colspan=2 | ʉ~u | |||
|- | |||
! Close-mid | |||
| e || || o~o̞ | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| a || || ɑ | |||
|} | |||
===Phonotactics=== | |||
All CV and V syllables are possible in Kivatu, though VC syllables do appear sometimes in some loanwords, like ''b’at'''aŋ''''', "baseball bat", from Indonesian ''batang'', or ''rob'''ok''''', "robot", from English ''robot''. | |||
[[Category:Kivatu]] | |||
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[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:A priori]] | [[Category:A priori]] | ||