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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Close || {{IPA|i}} | |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|ɪ}} | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-Close || || {{IPA|ɪ}} || {{IPA|ʊ}} | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Close-Mid || {{IPA|e}} | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Close-Mid || {{IPA|e}} || || || {{IPA|o}} | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Open-mid || {{IPA|ɛ}} | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Open-mid || {{IPA|ɛ}} || || || {{IPA|ɔ}} | ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Open || {{IPA|a}} | |style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Open || {{IPA|a}} || || || {{IPA|ɑ}} | ||
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Revision as of 01:12, 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 | Near-back | Back | |||||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-Close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-Mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||||
