Formanian [MLV]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Formanian
WIP, page being restructured I guess
Formanian is a language belonging to the Parraic branch of the Unarzaic family.
Some features of Formanian:
Formanian is a language belonging to the Parraic branch of the Unarzaic family.
Some features of Formanian:
- Agglutinative morphology
- 17 cases, including a wealth of locative ones
- Front/back vowel harmony
- Two-way animacy distinction
- COMING SOON: PROPER DIACHRONICS!
- whatever else i forgot to add back to this list after i accidentally wiped it oof
Language family relationships
Language treeUnarzaic
⤷ Proto-Unarzaic
⤷ Proto-Parraic
⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
⤷ Classical Porahaian
⤷ Middle Porahaian
⤷ Formanian
⤷ Proto-Unarzaic
⤷ Proto-Parraic
⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
⤷ Classical Porahaian
⤷ Middle Porahaian
⤷ Formanian
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]2 | x | ||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||
Lateral fricative | [ɬ]3 | [ʎ̝̊]4 | ||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||
Trill | r [r̥]5 | |||||||||||
Flap | [ɾ]6 |
- Before velar consonants and word-finally, allophone of /n/
- Word-finally, allophone of /j/
- Word-finally, allophone of /l/
- Word-finally, allophone of /ʎ/
- Word-finally, allophone of /r/
- Intervocalically, allophone of /r/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | y y: | [ɨ]1 [ɨ:]2 | [ʉ]3 [ʉ:]4 | u u: | |
Close-mid | e: | ø: | [ɘ:]5 | [ɵ:]6 | o: | |
Open-mid | ɛ | œ | [ɜ]7 | [ɞ]8 | ʌ | ɔ |
Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
Open | ɑ: |
- After alveolars, allophone of /i/
- After alveolars, allophone of /i:/
- After alveolars, allophone of /y/
- After alveolars, allophone of /y:/
- After alveolars, allophone of /e:/
- After alveolars, allophone of /ø:/
- After alveolars, allophone of /ɛ/
- After alveolars, allophone of /œ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Formanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
FormanianOrthography | |||||||||
Á Ȁȁ /æ:/ | a Aa /ʌ/ | á Àà /ɑ:/ | A Ää /æ/ | b Bb /b/ | C Čč /t͡ʃ/ | d Dd /d/ | é Èè /e:/ | e Ee /ɛ/ | f Ff /f/ |
g Gg /g/ | G GY gy /ɟ/ | h Hh /x/ | í Ìì /i:/ | i Ii /i/ | J J̌ǰ /d͡ʒ/ | y Jj /j/ | k Kk /k/ | K KY ky /c/ | l Ll /l/ |
L LY ly /ʎ/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n/ | N NY ny /ɲ/ | ó Òò /o:/ | o Oo /ɔ/ | Ó Ȍȍ /ø:/ | O Öö /œ/ | p Pp /p/ | r Rr /r/ |
s Ss /s/ | S Šš /ʃ/ | t Tt /t/ | Ú Ȕȕ /y:/ | U Üü /y/ | ú Ùù /u:/ | u Uu /u/ | v Vv /v/ | Z Žž /ʒ/ | z Zz /z/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
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