Ragham
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| Ragham | |
|---|---|
| Classical Ragham, Namun | |
| Raghaṃ | |
| Pronunciation | [raˈgʱã] |
| Region | Almost all of modern-day Namunia |
| Era | 1000 BNB – 120 ANB |
Namuno-Ethian
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Early form | Early Ragham
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| Nanai-Namun characters, Namun script, several others | |
Ragham (Raghaṃ [raˈgʱã] "standard, koine") is the ecclesiastical and literary language of Autanavism and Heranism. It is a Namuno-Ethian language of the Namunic branch. The earliest evidence of a distinct language recognisable as Ragham can be traced back to 1000 BNB, when the first inscriptions appear, usually on steles of religious significance. The stage of the language found in these inscriptions is Early Ragham. In the modern day, Ragham is no longer spoken as a day-to-day language, but it is still prolifically used in religious and spiritual texts, songs and poetry.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||
| Plosive | Plain | p | b | t | d | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | |||
| Breathy | pʰ | bʱ | tʰ | dʱ | ʈʰ | ɖʱ | kʰ | gʱ | ||||
| Affricate | Plain | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | |||||||||
| Breathy | t͡ɕʰ | d͡ʑʱ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʂ | ɕ | ɦ | ||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i i: ĩ ĩ: | u u: ũ ũ: |
| Open | a a: ã ã: |