Kunian

Kunian (kúnáegh nelvá)
Spoken in	Áq Kúņuļúgh
Speakers	~2
Classification	East Antarctican Languages Proto-Caseyan Caseyan Proto-Antesian Daskotian (Nę̄lvŏ Dàskóṭǎ) Antarcto-Polynesian Patâgonà Nülvom North Sikonynian Kunian

Kunian (Kunian: Kúnáegh Nelvá [ˈkuːnä​ɛ̯​ɟ ˌn​ɛlvä], cyrillic transcription: Күнаегь нелва) is an Antarcto-Polynesian Language spoken in the Eastern Pacific, most notably in the town of Áq Kúņuļúgh. It is part of the East Antarctican language family and descends from the North Sikonynian language (ò норьскол њелвѣт ō norhskol ṇelvêt). Unlike the latter, it is not written in the Cyrillic, but in the Latin Alphabet, though there are Cyrillic transcription standards.

Phonology

The Kunian Alphabet consist of 40 Graphemes, eight of which are vowel groups. Each vowel group consists of a lenis variant (◌) and an asper variant (◌́). The remaining graphemes represent consonants, of which four have a palatalised version: g [g] – gh or ġ [​ɟ]; k [k] – q [c]; l [l] – ļ [ʎ]; n [n] – ņ [ɲ]. Depending on the context, palatalisations which occur due to phonotactic rules (and not for etymological reasons) are not designated with their dedicated letter. In this case, the latter would be used to indicate that a palatalisation that should take place does not.

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