Sutaqlian language
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Sutaqlian | |
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TBD | |
Region | Sutaqlia |
Ethnicity | Sutaqlian |
Native speakers | ~22 million (2022) |
Pan-Anqirhan | |
Early forms |
Pre-Anqirhan
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Official status | |
Official language in | Sutaqlia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 |
sq |
ISO 639-2 |
stq |
ISO 639-3 |
stq |
Sutaqlian is the official language of Sutaqlia.
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Voiceless stop | p | t | c | k | q | |
Voiced stop | b | d | ɟ | g | ɢ | |
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Approximant | ʋ | l | j | ʁ | ||
Murmured Approximant | ʋ̤ | l̤ | j̤ | ʁ̤ | ||
Nasalized Approximant | ʋ̃ | l̃ | j̃ | ʁ̃ |
Vowels: /a/, /i/, /u/; they are [ɑ], [e], [o] after uvulars.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ng | |||
Voiceless stop | p | t | c | k | q | |
Voiced stop | b | d | j | g | gh | |
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Approximant | v | l | y | r | ||
Murmured Approximant | vh | lh | yh | rh | ||
Nasalized Approximant | nv | nl | ny | nr |
The maximum syllable structure is ClVC, where only stops can precede /l/. The nasalized approximants are actually due to assimilation of a nasal and approximant, and thus they can never begin a word; for example, [l̃] can be analyzed as /nl/. The only syllable-final consonant allowed next to another consonant is /n/, which assimilates to the following consonant. All sonorants (/j/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /ʁ/, /ʋ/), however, can end a word.