Old Matlic Orthography
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2. Old Matlic Syntax
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Here's some tables showing the Itamea alphabet, its Latin transliteration, and the sound(s) represented. Sounds in bold in the consonant table are the default sounds of their corresponding letters.
Itamea | Latin | Hard | Soft | ||
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Voiced | Voiceless | Voiced | Voiceless | ||
m | [m] | [m] | [m] | [m] | |
n | [n] | [n] | [ɲ] | [ɲ] | |
d | [z] | [s] | [ʒ] | [ʃ] | |
g | [ɣ] | [x] | [ʝ] | [ç] | |
t | [d] | [t] | [dʒ] | [tʃ] | |
k | [g] | [k] | [ɟ] | [c] | |
r | [r] | [r] | [r] | [r] | |
l | [l] | [l] | [ʎ] | [ʎ] | |
p | [b] | [p] | [b] | [p] | |
h | rarely used, /h/ | ||||
b | [β] | [ɸ] | [β] | [ɸ] | |
ŋ | [ŋ] | [ŋ] | [ɲ] | [ɲ] |
The consonants that can be palatalized ("softened") do so before the letters <e ê i>. After a consonant that can be palatalized, the grapheme <i> is rendered silent and serves only as a palatalization market unless the word would be unpronounceable as a result (which didn't occur that often). A double
Itamea | Latin | Vowel |
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i | [i] | |
a | [a] | |
â | [æ] | |
o | [ɔ] | |
ô | [o] | |
e | [ɛ] | |
ê | [e] | |
y | rarely used, /i~ɨ/ | |
u | [u] |
Note: the diacritic represented by a circumflex in the romanization looks similar to an acute accent, but pointing slightly more upwards. Images showing it will be added eventually.
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