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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Close || {{IPA|i}} || {{IPA|y}} || || || || || || || || {{IPA|u}}
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Close || {{IPA|i}} || || || || || || || || || {{IPA|u}}
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-Close || || || {{IPA|e}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|o}}
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-Close || || {{IPA|ɪ}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ʊ}}
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Open-mid || || || <span style="color: #c0c0c0">{{IPA|ɛ}}</span> || || || || || || || <span style="color: #c0c0c0">{{IPA|ɔ}}</span>
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Open-mid || || || <span style="color: #c0c0c0">{{IPA|ɛ}}</span> || || || || || || || <span style="color: #c0c0c0">{{IPA|ɔ}}</span>

Revision as of 01:07, 2 May 2009

Zefāzh is a language developped in the early-mid twenty-first century, spoken at first primarily by devoted followers of the World-Maker Zef; within a decade, it had become the lingua franca for those from all over the world immigrating to Zefasja, a nation founded on a partially esoteric philosophical movement referred to varyingly as "Zefism," "Poetic Imperialism" or "Trinitism."

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
Bilabial Labiod. Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Coarticulated
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d k g
Fricative f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ç ʝ χ ɕ ʑ
Approximant j
Tap ɾ
Trill r ʀ
Lateral Approximant l ɫ

Vowels

Short vowels
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close i u
Near-Close ɪ ʊ
Close-Mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a