Tabehan language
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| Tabehan | ||
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| Täwe | ||
| Pronunciation | /tæ.ˈbɪ.hən/ΕΝ [ˈtæ.βɪ]TB | |
| Spoken in |  Nunshavi
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| Total speakers | ??? million aprox. | |
| Language family |
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| Writing system | Latin | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | Nunshavi
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| Regulated by | ||
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | tb | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Tabehan or Täwe (natively) is a language of …
Tabehan is a fusional language characterized by the use of difrasismo/kenning and honorifics. Its basic word order is SOV.
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Geographic distribution
Dialects
History
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Cerebral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ɲ̊ | ɲ | ||||||||
| Plosive | pʰ | b̥ | tʰ | d̥ | kʰ | ɡ̊ | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | ɬ, s | ʂ | x | h | ||||||
| Approximant | l | j | ʟ | |||||||||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||||||||
- Consonants presented in pairs are allophones of each other.
Vowels
| front | central | back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| close | iː | ɨː | uː |
| ɪ | ə | ʊ | |
| mid | eː | oː | |
| ɛ | ɐ | ɔ | |
| open | æː | aː | ɑ |
Stress
Writing system
Shavi is mainly written in the ??? script since ancient times.
The Latin alphabet was adopted to improve international communication.
- Aa, Ää, Pp, Tt, Kk, Ee, Ww, Hh, Ii, Ɨɨ, Gg, Mm, Nn, Ññ, Ll, Oo, Bb, Xx, Ss, Rr, Dd, Uu, Yy, Cc, Jj, Zz
- Some phonetic sounds represented by a single grapheme in the Terac script, are represented by digraphs in its Latin form
Orthography
| Grapheme | Phonetic realization | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| a | [ɑ] | |
| aa | [aː] | |
| ä | [ə] | |
| ää | [æː] | |
| p | [ph] | |
| t | [th] | |
| k | [kh] | |
| e | [ɛ] | |
| ee | [eː] | |
| w | [β] | |
| hw | [ɸ] | |
| wh | [ʊ̯] | |
| h | [h] | |
| i | [ɪ] | |
| ii | [iː] | |
| ɨ | [ə] | |
| ɨɨ | [ɨː] | |
| g | [ɡ̊] | |
| gl | [ʟ] | |
| m | [m] | |
| hm | [m̥]ʊ̯ | |
| mh | [ʊ̯] | |
| n | [n] | |
| hn, nh | [n̥] | |
| ñ | [ɲ] | |
| hñ | [ɲ̊] | |
| ñh | [n̥] | |
| l | [l] | |
| hl | [tɬ] | |
| lh | final position
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before consonant
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| o | [ɔ] | |
| oo | [oː] | |
| b | [b̥] | |
| x | [s] | |
| s | [ʂ] | |
| r | [r] | |
| hr, rh | [x] | |
| d | [d̥] | |
| u | [ʊ] | |
| uu | [uː] | |
| y | [j] | |
| c | [ʤ] | |
| j | ||
| hc, ch | [ʧ] | |
| hj, jh | ||
| z | [ð] | |
| hz | [θ] | |
| zh | final position
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before consonant
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