Not-Canonical Amaian [AMA]
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kaaexap guecchip [əˈmajən, ʔɛ̌:ɦɑ̄ gə̀cʼī]
[view flag info] Not-Canonical Amaian
kaaexap guecchip [əˈmajən, ʔɛ̌:ɦɑ̄ gə̀cʼī]
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[Deactivated User] on 23 April 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Not-Canonical Amaian
NOTE: not a Sahar language anymore. Also inactive. This is basically an archived conlang.
-Complex phonology where length in vowels interacts with a word tone system. This produces 50 distinct tone patterns in words three syllables or fewer. Fortis/lenis contrast in consonants. Monosyllabic words are not allowed. Velar/uvular harmony and ae/e harmony within words.
-Fusional verbal morphology incorporating speaker attitude, certainty of knowledge, and direction of motion, among other grammatical categories. These are expressed through tone changes, vowel and consonant length changes, infixation, and many forms of reduplication.
-No morphological aspect or tense.
-Clitics galore covering many case-like and TAM-marking functions, among others. Many words have both short and long forms as they combine with clitics or stand alone.
-Head-final directionality shifting towards head-initial under influence from neighboring languages.
-SVO with SOV word order when the O is in focus. Complex system of marking topic and focus.
-Large numbers of loanwords from
Kalchelian, 
Jená, 
Laefêvëši (outdated), 
Not-Canonical Voont, Mroksakh, and more!
-One component of Amaia's striking ethnolinguistic diversity. An Eastern Miraric language.
-Pronounced dialectal variation (the variety presented here is the most commonly-spoken variety of Amaia's western central region).
-Multiple scripts in use: the most widely-used was inspired by a dream of an Amaian cultural leader during the revolution that brought upon the current Amaian political system. Also written in the Mahavic alphabet and the Jená abugida.
Inspirations: Amharic (Ethiopia), Ket (Russia), Mandarin (China), Shanghainese (China), Jin Chinese (China), Makalero (East Timor), Basque (Spain/France), Ewegbe, Fongbe, Gungbe (Ghana/Togo/Benin/Nigeria). Check them out! They do cool things cooler than I could!
-Complex phonology where length in vowels interacts with a word tone system. This produces 50 distinct tone patterns in words three syllables or fewer. Fortis/lenis contrast in consonants. Monosyllabic words are not allowed. Velar/uvular harmony and ae/e harmony within words.
-Fusional verbal morphology incorporating speaker attitude, certainty of knowledge, and direction of motion, among other grammatical categories. These are expressed through tone changes, vowel and consonant length changes, infixation, and many forms of reduplication.
-No morphological aspect or tense.
-Clitics galore covering many case-like and TAM-marking functions, among others. Many words have both short and long forms as they combine with clitics or stand alone.
-Head-final directionality shifting towards head-initial under influence from neighboring languages.
-SVO with SOV word order when the O is in focus. Complex system of marking topic and focus.
-Large numbers of loanwords from
Kalchelian, Jená, Laefêvëši (outdated), Not-Canonical Voont, Mroksakh, and more!-One component of Amaia's striking ethnolinguistic diversity. An Eastern Miraric language.
-Pronounced dialectal variation (the variety presented here is the most commonly-spoken variety of Amaia's western central region).
-Multiple scripts in use: the most widely-used was inspired by a dream of an Amaian cultural leader during the revolution that brought upon the current Amaian political system. Also written in the Mahavic alphabet and the
Jená abugida.Inspirations: Amharic (Ethiopia), Ket (Russia), Mandarin (China), Shanghainese (China), Jin Chinese (China), Makalero (East Timor), Basque (Spain/France), Ewegbe, Fongbe, Gungbe (Ghana/Togo/Benin/Nigeria). Check them out! They do cool things cooler than I could!
Sample of Not-Canonical Amaian[view] boollot dme-bbol-buue?
I wonder what's for dinner?[view all texts]
I wonder what's for dinner?[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m m: | ɲ ɲ: | ŋ ŋ: | [ɴ]1 [ɴ:]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p: | b b: | t̪ʼ t̪: | d̪ | [cʼ]3 | [k]4 [kʼ]5 k: | g | q qʼ [q:]6 | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ð]7 | ɕ: | x: | [ɣ]8 | [χ:]9 | [ʁ]10 | [ħ:]11 | h: | ɦ | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | [ɭ]12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɮ:ʲ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||||||||
- after uvular in word, allophone of /ŋ/
- after uvular in word, allophone of /ŋ:/
- before front vowel, allophone of /t̪ʼ/
- after velar in word, allophone of /q/
- after velar in word, allophone of /qʼ/
- after uvular in word, allophone of /k:/
- V_V, allophone of /d̪/
- allophone of /ʁ/
- after uvular in word, allophone of /x:/
- allophone of /g/
- in free variation, allophone of /h:/
- _C, allophone of /l̪/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | ɨ ɨ: | u u: | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ: | ʊ: | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||||||||
| Open | [a]1 | ɑ ɑ: | ||||||||
- after palatal consonants, allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Not-Canonical Amaian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Not-Canonical AmaianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, [a]1 | AA aa/ɑ:/ | AAE aae/ɛ:/ | AE ae/ɛ/ | Bb/b/ | BB bb/p:/ | CCH cch/t̪ʼ/, [cʼ]2 | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d̪/, [ð]3 | DD dd/t̪:/ |
| Ee/e/ | EE ee/ɪ:/ | Gg/g/, [ʁ] | GG gg/k:/, [q:]4 | Hh/ɣ/, [ʁ] | HH hh/x:/, [χ:]5 | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Kk/ʔ/ | Ll/l̪/, [ɭ]6 |
| LL ll/ɮ:ʲ/ | Mm/m/ | MM mm/m:/ | Nn/ɲ/ | NG ng/ŋ/, [ɴ]7 | NN nn/ɲ:/ | NNG nng/ŋ:/, [ɴ:]8 | Oo/o/ | OO oo/ʊ:/ | Pp// |
| Qq/q/, [k]9 | QQ qq/qʼ/, [kʼ]10 | Rr/ʁ/, [ɣ] | RR rr/x:/ | Tt// | Uu/u/ | UE ue/ə/ | UI ui/ɨ/ | UU uu/u:/ | UUE uue/ə:/ |
| UUI uui/ɨ:/ | Vv/ʋ/ | VV vv/b:/ | Xx/ɦ/ | XX xx/h:/, [ħ:]11 | Yy/j/ | YY yy/ɕ:/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- after palatal consonants
- before front vowel
- V_V
- after uvular in word
- after uvular in word
- _C
- after uvular in word
- after uvular in word
- after velar in word
- after velar in word
- in free variation
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