Wasaqalu script and phonetics
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1.1. Script
| Transcription | Phonetic | Value | |
| f | f | f | english f in fairy |
| v | β | B | spanish b in haber |
| mp | mp | mp | english mp in impress |
| mb | mb | mb | english mb in embassy |
| m | m | m | english m in me |
| a | a | a | french a in patte |
| â | ɒ | Q | english â in wash |
| s | s | s | english s in see |
| z | ð | D | english th in then |
| nt | nt | nt | english nt in entire |
| nd | nd | nd | english nd in end |
| n | n | n | english n in near |
| l | l | l | english l in lean |
| r | r | r | italian r in re |
| x | ʃ | S | english sh in she |
| y | j | j | english y in yes |
| nc | ntʃ | ntS | english nch in inch |
| nj | ndʒ | ndZ | english nj in enjoy |
| ñ | ɲ | J | spanish ñ in niño |
| i | i | i | italian i in città |
| e | ɛ | E | french è in mère |
| h | ħ | X/ | arabic ħ in ħass |
| w | w | w | english w in will |
| ng | ng | ng | italian ng in angolo |
| q | ŋ | N | english ng in sing |
| u | u | u | italian u in tu |
| o | ɔ | O | french o in mot |
1.2. Phonetics
1.2.1. Consonants
| Bi-lab. | Lab. | Dent. | Alv. | Post.Al. | Pal. | Vel. | Phar. | |||||||||
| Fricatives | f | f | s | s | x | ʃ | h | ħ | ||||||||
| v | β | z | ð | |||||||||||||
| Nasal stops | mp | mp | nt | nt | nc | ntʃ | ||||||||||
| mb | mb | nd | nd | nj | ndʒ | ng | ng | |||||||||
| Nasals | m | m | n | n | ñ | ɲ | q | ŋ | ||||||||
| Rolled | r | r | ||||||||||||||
| Laterals | l | l | ||||||||||||||
| Approximants | y | j | w | w | ||||||||||||
1.2.2. Vowels
| Front | Back | |||
| Closed | i | i | u | u |
| Mid-closed | e | ɛ | o | ɔ |
| Open | a | a | â | ɒ |
1.3. Stress
The stress falls regularly on the second-to-last syllable of the root : that is to say that in inflected words it can fall on the penultimate, antepenultimate syllable, or worse!
| vuya | vuya-mba | vunduya | undalu | andalunu | andaluñunu |
| [β’uja] | [β’ujamba] | [βund’uja] | [und’alu] | [und’alunu] | [und’aluɲunu] |
| the house | the houses | in the houses | I see | I see him | I shall see him |
2. Nouns
3. Pronouns and adverbs
4. Numerals
5. Verbs
6. Syntax
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