Meljua [MJE]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Meljua
A language of the Meljua Language Family, a race of cat people in my fantasy world (basically Khajiit). The name 'Meljua' is a transliteration of 'Melīu' to the languages of men( Nlaikamea ), the 'j' is pronounced like in the IPA not like in English. The name of this exact language is "Bīkomasu tsu Nitzūshiba"
Sample of Meljua[view] wetāng ūmun naitzūmare teh'oun d'anfunji tsu ǔshi xi ǔshi tsu d'anfunji
We're busy discussing the idea of beauty, and the beauty of ideas.[view all texts]
We're busy discussing the idea of beauty, and the beauty of ideas.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | |||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɕ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i [i:]1 [í]2 [i᷉]3 | ɯ [ɯ:]4 [ɯ́]5 [ɯ᷉]6 | ||||
Open-mid | ɛ [ɛ:]7 [ɛ́]8 [ɛ᷉]9 | ɔ [ɔ:]10 [ɔ́]11 [ɔ᷉]12 | ||||
Open | ä [ä:]13 [ä́]14 [ä᷉]15 |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /ɯ/
- allophone of /ɯ/
- allophone of /ɯ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /ä/
- allophone of /ä/
- allophone of /ä/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Meljua. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
MeljuaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ |
Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ |
TS ts/t͡s/ | TZ tz/d͡z/ | Uu/ɯ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ɕ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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