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Shavi
Tan Săwɨ
Pronunciation	/ˈʃə.vɪ/ΕΝ [tɑn ʂə.ˈβ̞ɨ]SW
Spoken in	Nunshavi  Nithalosia  Eperne  Salian Empire  Atoskherakh
Total speakers	73.3 million aprox.
Language family	Tansian Medzmayan Shavi
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Official language in	Nunshavi
Regulated by
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sw
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–
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Shavi or Tan Săwɨ (natively) is the official language of Nun Săwɨ

Shavi is a fusional language characterized by the use of difrasismo/kenning and honorifics. The basic word order of Shavi is SOV.

Contents 1 Geographic distribution 1.1 Dialects 2 History 3 Phonology 3.1 Consonants 3.2 Vowels 3.3 Stress 4 Writing system 4.1 Orthography 5 Grammar 5.1 Morphological Type 5.1.1 Consonant mutation 5.2 Pronouns 5.2.1 Grammatical cases 5.3 Adjectives 5.4 Nouns 5.4.1 Grammatical cases 5.5 Adverbs 5.6 Verbs 5.7 Grammatical Particles 6 Vocabulary 7 Examples

Geographic distribution

Dialects

History

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Cerebral	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n			ɲ
Plosive	prenasalized	mb	nd			ɲɟ͡ʝ	ŋg
	voiceless	p	t				k	ʔ
Fricative	voiceless	ɸ		s	ʂ	ɕ	x	h
	voiced	β⁓w	ð			ʝ	ɣ
Approximant				l
Rhotic				ɾ⁓r

• Consonants presented in pairs are allophones of each other.

Vowels

	front	central	back
close	i	ʉ	o
open	ɛ	ə	ɑ

Stress

Writing system

Shavi is mainly written in the Terak script since ancient times.

The Latin alphabet was adopted to improve international communication.

Aa, Ăă, Pp, Tt, Kk, Ee, Ff, Ww, Hh, Ii, Ɨɨ, Mm, Nn, Ññ, Ll, Oo, Xx, Ss, Rr, ¥ʉ, Yy, Cc, Qq, Zz

• Some phonetic sounds represented by a single grapheme in the Terak script, are represented by digraphs in its Latin form

Orthography

Grapheme	Phonetic realization	Examples
a	[ɑ]
ă	[ə]
p	[p]
t	[t]
k	[k]
e	[ɛ]
f	[ɸ]
w	[β⁓w]
h	initial & intervocalic position [h]
	final position, after vowel [h]
i	[i]
ɨ	[ɨ]
m	[m]
mp	[mb]
n	initial & intervocalic position [n]
	final position, after vowel [n]
nt	[n̪d̪]
nk	[ŋg]
ñ	[ɲ]
ñc	[ɲɟ͡ʝ]
l	[l]
o	[o]
x	[s]
s	[ʂ]
r	initial position [r⁓ɣ]
	elsewhere [ɾ]
ʉ	[ʉ]
y	[ʝ]
c	[ɕ]
q	[x]
z	initial & intervocalic position [ð]
	final position, after vowel [ʔ]
<'>	[ʔ]

Grammar

Morphological Type

Consonant mutation

Prenasalization
[p]	→ [mb]	pura [ˈpu.ɾə] "-" → mpura [ˈmbu.ɾə] "-"
[t]	→ [nd]	tɨqɨ [ˈtɨ.xɨ] "-" → ntɨqɨ [ˈndɨ.xɨ] "-"
[k]	→ [ŋg]	kunɨ [ku.ˈnɨ] "-" → nkunɨ [ŋgu.ˈnɨ] "-"
Spirantization
[m]	→ [β⁓w]	muzo [ˈmu.ð̞o] "-" → ŵuzo [ˈʍu.ð̞o] "-"
[n]	→ [ð]	nuyɨl [ˈnu.jɨl] "-" → ẑuyɨl [ˈðu.jɨl] "-"
[ɲ]	→ [ʝ]	ñe'arpa [ɲe.ˈʔɑɾ.pə] "-" → ŷe'arpa [ʝe.ˈʔɑɾ.pə] "-"
[r]	→ [ɣ]	ruxin [ˈru.sin] "-" → rhuxin [ˈɣu.sin] "-"
Debuccalization
[s]	→ [h]	xistɨ [ˈsiʂ.tɨ] "-" → xhistɨ [ˈhiʂ.tɨ] "-"
[ʂ]	→ [h]	sañe [ʂɑ.ˈɲe] "-" → shañe [hɑ.ˈɲe] "-"
[ɕ]	→ [h]	coz [ɕoðʔ] "-" → choz [hoðʔ] "-"
Elision
[ɸ]	→ Ø	fax [ɸɑs] "-" → fhax [ɑs] "-"
[x]	→ Ø	qăr [xəɾ] "-" → qhăr [əɾ] "-"
Elision
[β]	→ Ø	wil [βil] "-" → wlil [wil] "-"
[ð]	→ Ø	zor [ðor] "-" → zlor [lor] "-"
[ʝ]	→ Ø	ye'arpa [ʝe.ˈʔɑɾ.pə] "-" → yle'arpa [je.ˈʔɑɾ.pə] "-"
[ɣ]	→ Ø	guxin [ˈɣu.sin] "-" → gluxin [ˈwu.sin] "-"

Pronouns

	Neuter	Formal	Honorific
I	ne	newet	–
thou	za	zawot	zawotonu
he/she	ye	yewet	yeweteni
it	wat	–	watonu
we	ănteh	ănteteh	–
you	zoah	zowatoh	zotonuh
they	eh	eteh	etenih

	Subject	Object	Reflexive
I	ni-	-net-
thou	zi-	-wit-
he/she	i-	-qe-
it	–	-re-
we	ăne-	-ta-
you	so-	-aso-
they	te-	-lel-

Grammatical cases

Adjectives

Nouns

Grammatical cases

Adverbs

Verbs

Grammatical Particles

Vocabulary

Examples