Ancient Fãngra language

Ancient Fãngra (Fãngra ) was the main language of the First Fãngra Empire. Ancient Fãngra consists of many dialects spoken among the empire, the central dialect is considered the standard variety. It was spoken around 6300 AIA. It was later spread by means of colonisation of the Kraj tu ungu Peninsula.

Phonology
Having many dialects, the phonology differs in different places of the empire. The following phonology is the central and standard one.

Consonants

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 * m ⟨m⟩
 * n ⟨n⟩
 * ŋ ⟨ng⟩
 * ŋ ⟨ng⟩
 * ŋ ⟨ng⟩
 * p ⟨p⟩
 * t ⟨t⟩
 * k ⟨k⟩
 * k ⟨k⟩
 * k ⟨k⟩
 * t͡ʃ ⟨c⟩
 * t͡ʃ ⟨c⟩
 * t͡ʃ ⟨c⟩
 * ɸ ⟨f⟩
 * s ⟨s⟩
 * x ⟨h⟩
 * x ⟨h⟩
 * x ⟨h⟩
 * β ⟨b⟩
 * ð ⟨d⟩
 * ɣ ⟨g⟩
 * ɣ ⟨g⟩
 * ɣ ⟨g⟩
 * l ⟨l⟩
 * j ⟨y⟩
 * w ⟨w⟩
 * j ⟨y⟩
 * w ⟨w⟩
 * r ⟨r⟩
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 * r ⟨r⟩
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/l/ is realised as velarised [ɫ].

Vowels



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/a/ becomes [ə] when unstressed and in final position, for example ohan [ˈoxən] ('one').

Nouns
Nouns in Ancient Fãngra are declined for seven cases and two numbers.


 * An-, un-, in- go before the noun, meanwhile the other cases are used like prepositions, for example:
 * An-folão hai pilu li hulu in-dirgim. ('The father gave the man a blink. / The father winked at the man.')


 * Only subject and objective are distinguished in terms of number. The rest of the cases is the same in both singular and plural.