Voltan language
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| Voltan | |
|---|---|
| Voltaern | |
| Native to | Volta |
Native speakers | 30,000,000 |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Volta |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
The Voltan language, also known as Voltan Creole, is a _____-based creole language spoken in Volta. It is the most commonly spoken language in Volta, and is also one of the two official languages in the country. The language started developing during the 17th century, after the ____ initially colonized the region.
History
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar/ Uvular |
Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | fortis | p | t | k | (ʔ) | ||
| lenis | b | d | ɡ | ||||
| Affricate | fortis | p͡f | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||
| lenis | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | sibilant | fortis | s | ʃ | |||
| lenis | z | ʒ | |||||
| non-sibilant | fortis | f | ç | x | h | ||
| lenis | v | j | |||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | ɪ | iː | y | yː | ʊ | uː | ||
| Close-mid | eː | øː | oː | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | aː | ||||||