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[[Category:Iboma]] [[Category:Languages]]
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The '''Ibomian language''' is the most widely spoken and official language of the [[Novaris|Novaran]] country, [[Iboma]]. Spoken, by approximately 99.7% of the population, it has 56.9 million speakers. Modern Ibomian is descended from Middle and Ancient Ibomian. As the only language in its language family, it is considered a language isolate. Although, it once used a Runic alphabet, it shifted to [[Wikipedia:Latin script|Codexian script]] when it came into contact with Codexian explorers. It is an agglutinative language characterized by a rich noun-class system, subject-verb-object sentence structure, and pro-drop approach to pronouns.
==History==
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==Phonetics==
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Central vowel|Central]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|i}}
|
| {{IPA link|u}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| {{IPA link|ɛ}}
|
| {{IPA link|ɔ}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
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| {{IPA link|ä|a}}
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|}
===Consonants===
The Ibomian language uses soft and hard variations of consonants (especially plosives) that might be hard for non-native or foreign speakers to distinguish.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Ibomian phonemes
|-
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
! rowspan="2" | [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[Dental consonant|Dental]]/[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Postalveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! [[Central consonant|central]]
! [[Lateral consonant|lateral]]
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
! modally voiced
| {{IPA|m}}
| {{IPA|n}}
|
| {{IPA|ɲ}}
|
|
|-
! slack-voiced
| {{IPA|m̤}}
| {{IPA|n̤}}
|
|
| ({{IPA|ŋ̈}})
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|-
! rowspan="4" | [[Stop consonant|Stop]]
! 'plain'
| {{IPA|pʼ}}
| {{IPA|tʼ}}
|
|
| {{IPA|kʼ}}
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|-
! aspirated
| {{IPA|pʰ}}
| {{IPA|tʰ}}
|
|
| {{IPA|kʰ}}
|
|-
! slack-voiced
| {{IPA|b̤}}
| {{IPA|d̤}}
|
|
| {{IPA|ɡ̈}}
|
|-
! implosive
| {{IPA|ɓ}}
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|
|
| {{IPA|ɠ}}
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|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
! 'plain'
|
| {{IPA|tsʼ}}
|
| {{IPA|tʃʼ}}
| {{IPA|kxʼ}}~{{IPA|kʟ̝̊ʼ}}
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|-
! slack-voiced
|
|
|
| {{IPA|dʒ̈}}
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|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
! voiceless
| {{IPA|f}}
| {{IPA|s}}
|
| {{IPA|ʃ}}
|
| {{IPA|h}}
|-
! slack-voiced
| {{IPA|v̤}}
| {{IPA|z̤}}
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|
|
| {{IPA|ɦ̥}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
! modally voiced
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|
| {{IPA|l}}
| {{IPA|j}}
| {{IPA|w}}
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|-
! slack-voiced
|
|
|
| {{IPA|j̈}}
| {{IPA|w̤}}
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|-
! [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
!
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| r
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|}
==Orthography==
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