Mokha language

Mokha
Mokhavic, Mokhavian, Nanay
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Mokha people neer the city of Dene circa 1915
Pronunciation	/-/
Native to	Mokhavia
Ethnicity	Mokhavics
Native speakers	L1: 3,650,000 L2: 1,520,000
Language family	Unduk Northern Nanaic Mokha
Standard forms	Coastal
Dialects	Coastal Inland Forest Inland plains Southern Seykel
Writing system	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Mokhavia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	MK
ISO 639-2	MKH
ISO 639-3	MKH
Distribution of the language   Absolute majority   >30% of native speakers

The Mokha language (Mokha: -) is the language of the Mokha people (aka: Mokhavic/Mokhavian/Nanay people), spoken on the coasts and inland of the Unduk lakes in Mokhavia, mainly the Nanay and Monay lakes. It's one of the indeginous languages spoken on the continent of Argis. It's the official working langauge of the nation of Mokhavia, spoken in the majority of the country.

Classification

Mokha is one of only 2 remaining members of the Unduk language family, the Unduk languages are a sub Paleo-Canamo language group. Most other Unduk languages went extinct by assimilation from people like the Ateenians, Haydag and even other Unduk tribes. The closest living language to Mokha, and also the only other Unduk language is the Seykel language, some linguist group them thoghether into one language due to their great similarity. The language map shown in the infobox includes areas of Seykel.

• Proto-Unduk
  • Northern
    • Nanaic
      • Seykel language*
      • Mokha language
    • Monaic
      • Aarnuaq language†
  • Southern
    • Yakrow language†
    • Duwat language†

† - extinct language

Geographic Distribution

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History

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Phonology & Orthography

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Post- Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular
	Plain	Long	Plain	Long	Plain	Long	Plain	Long	Plain	Long	Plain	Long
Nasal	m [m]	mm [mː]	n [n]	nn [nː]
Plosive	p [p]	pp [pː]	t [t]	tt [tː]			k̠ [c]	k̠k̠ [cː]	k [k]	kk [kː]	q [q]	qq [qː]
Affricate			ts [t͡s]	tts [t͡sː]	ts̠ [t͡s̙]	tts̠ [t͡s̙ː]
Fricative	v [v]	vv [vː]	s [s]	ss [sː]	s̠ [s̙]	s̠s̠ [s̙ː]			h [x]	hh [xː]
Aproximant	w [w]		l [l]	ll [lː]			j [j]
Tap/Flap			r [ɾ]

Vowels

	Front		Central	Back
	unrounded		unrounded	unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	short	long	short	long
Close	i [i]	ii [iː]	y [ɪ̈]			u [u]	uu [uː]
Open-mid	e [ɛ]	ee [ɛː]				o [ɔ]	oo [ɔː]
Open	ä [æ]	ää [æː]		a [ɑ]	a [ɑː]

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Miscellaneous

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Dialects

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Lexicon

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Language Examples

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