Untitled Night Realm Sun Elf Language
Clicks: ǂʼAmkoe has a large number of click sounds, which are produced by a variety of mechanisms (e.g., dental, lateral, and postalveolar clicks). The clicks are classified as:
Dental clicks /ǀ/ (like the sound of the tongue clicking against the teeth)
Lateral clicks /ǁ/ (tongue clicks made at the side of the mouth)
Postalveolar clicks /ǃ/ (similar to the sound made when imitating a "tsk tsk")
Stops and Fricatives: The language also has other consonants like stops and fricatives that occur at various places of articulation, including glottal, bilabial, and velar.
Nasal consonants like /m/ and /n/ are also present.
Voicing and Aspiration: Many consonants are voiced or voiceless, and some may be aspirated (produced with an additional breath of air).
ǂʼAmkoe has a relatively simple vowel system. There are five basic vowels /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, and /u/, with some distinctions between short and long vowels.
Like many African languages, ǂʼAmkoe is a tonal language. Tone is phonemic, meaning that the pitch or tone of a word can change its meaning. There are high, low, and rising tones in ǂʼAmkoe.
Syllables in ǂʼAmkoe can have a CVC structure (consonant-vowel-consonant), and the clicks typically appear in the onset position of a syllable. Clicks can occur as initial sounds, medial sounds, or in other positions depending on the word.
Elven
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