Minkat Toshiba language

Minkat Toshiba language is one of the languages in Toshiba State, Hyundai Country and is spoken by around 46,855 people (the Minkats), and there are 85,996 L2 speakers. Minkat Toshiba is the most common spoken Toshiby language of Toshiba State.

The language belongs to the Toshiby family.

Oral
Kinkui dialect of Minkat Toshiba has the following oral vowels (/i, u, e, ə, o, ɛ, ɜ, ɔ, ɐ, ä, ɑ/).

Togin dialect has /ɤ/ in place of /o/ and /ɘ/ in place of /ɐ/.

Nasal
Kinkui dialect of Minkat Toshiba has the following nasal vowels (/ĩ, ũ, ẽ, ə̃, ɛ̃, ɔ̃, ɐ̃, ɑ̃/).

Togin dialect has /ɘ̃/ in place of /ɐ̃/.

Consonants
The consonant inventory is almost the same as Shixing. Minkat Toshiba, however lacks palatal fricatives /ɕ ʑ/, and has a retroflex nasal.

Writing system
Minkat Toshiba has been a written language since 1670. Previous to that, it was a purely spoken language.

The most recent alphabet was adopted in 1971.

The letters names are from British English letter names for unmodified letters, except for Y, which the letter's name is 'i gâreč', from the French letter name of Y, 'i grec', meaning 'Greek I'.