Not-Canonical Eastern Amaian [AME]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Not-Canonical Eastern Amaian
Eastern Amaian is one of the three Amaian languages of western Miraria on Sahar, and belongs to the Eastern Mirarian family, which also includes 
Thuun, 
Elipa, and 
Ezian, among others, and descends from 
Proto-Pemme. It is spoken by about ten million humans in eastern and southern Amaia, and western Yerlan. Most of its speakers are multilingual in Standard 
Not-Canonical Amaian, 
Kalchelian, or 
Jená.
It differs from Standard Amaian and the other Amaian varieties in having a series of phonemic breathy-voiced consonants and contrastive nasalization on vowels. More phonologically conservative than its relatives, it has loaned even more extensively than Standard Amaian, and is more isolating, and thus grammatically innovative than Standard Amaian. However, it is less lexically and grammatically innovative than Northern Amaian.
Thuun, Elipa, and Ezian, among others, and descends from Proto-Pemme. It is spoken by about ten million humans in eastern and southern Amaia, and western Yerlan. Most of its speakers are multilingual in Standard Not-Canonical Amaian, Kalchelian, or Jená.It differs from Standard Amaian and the other Amaian varieties in having a series of phonemic breathy-voiced consonants and contrastive nasalization on vowels. More phonologically conservative than its relatives, it has loaned even more extensively than Standard Amaian, and is more isolating, and thus grammatically innovative than Standard Amaian. However, it is less lexically and grammatically innovative than Northern Amaian.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m mʱ m: | ɲ ɲʱ ɲ: | ŋ ŋʱ ŋ: | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p: | b bʱ b: | t̪: | d̪ d̪ʱ | k: | g gʱ | q qʼ qʰ | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | x: | ɣ ɣʱ | χ: | ʁ ʁʱ | h: | ɦ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʼ | d͡ʑ d͡ʑʱ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɮ:ʲ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ ʋʱ | j | ||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: í: ĩ í | ɨ ɨ: ɨ́: ɨ̃ ɨ́ | u u: ú: ũ ú | |||
| Close-mid | e e: é: ẽ é | o o: ó: õ ó | ||||
| Mid | ə ə: ə́: ə̃ ə́ | |||||
| Near-open | æ æ: ǽ: æ̃ ǽ | |||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: ɑ́: ɑ̃ ɑ́ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Not-Canonical Eastern Amaian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Not-Canonical Eastern AmaianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Ãã/ɑ̃/ | Áá/ɑ́/ | Aa/ɑ/ | ÁA áa/ɑ́:/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | ÁAE áae/ǽ:/, /ǽ/ | AAE aae/æ:/ | ÃE ãe/æ̃/ | AE ae/æ/ | Bb/b/ |
| BB bb/p:/ | BX bx/bʱ/ | CCH cch/t͡ɕʼ/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d̪/ | DD dd/t̪:/ | DX dx/d̪ʱ/ | Ee/e/ | Ẽẽ/ẽ/ | Éé/é/ |
| ÉE ée/é:/ | EE ee/e:/ | Gg/g/ | GG gg/k:/ | GX gx/gʱ/ | Hh/ɣ/ | HH hh/x:/ | HX hx/ɣʱ/ | Ii/i/ | Ĩĩ/ĩ/ |
| Íí/í/ | ÍI íi/í:/ | II ii/i:/ | Kk/ʔ/ | Ll/l̪/ | LL ll/ɮ:ʲ/ | Mm/m/ | MM mm/m:/ | MX mx/mʱ/ | Nn/ɲ/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | NGX ngx/ŋʱ/ | NN nn/ɲ:/ | NNG nng/ŋ:/ | NX nx/ɲʱ/ | Óó/ó/ | Õõ/õ/ | Oo/o/ | OO oo/o:/ | ÓO óo/ó:/ |
| Qq/q/ | QQ qq/qʼ/ | QX qx/qʰ/ | Rr/ʁ/ | RR rr/χ:/ | RX rx/ʁʱ/ | Ũũ/ũ/ | Úú/ú/ | Uu/u/ | UE ue/ə/ |
| ŨE ũe/ə̃/ | ÚI úi/ɨ́/ | UI ui/ɨ/ | ŨI ũi/ɨ̃/ | UU uu/u:/ | ÚU úu/ú:/ | UUE uue/ə:/ | ÚUE úue/ə́/, /ə́:/ | ÚUI úui/ɨ́:/ | UUI uui/ɨ:/ |
| Vv/ʋ/ | VV vv/b:/ | VX vx/ʋʱ/ | Xx/ɦ/ | XX xx/h:/ | Yy/j/ | YX yx/d͡ʑʱ/ | YY yy/d͡ʑ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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