Ame language [AMX]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ame language
The Ame language is an indigenous language of the Nousa Kingdom, spoken by the Ame people, written in a logographic writing system called the Ame script.
The Ame language has a specific avoidance speech used in special occasions. This is due to supersitions that using the regular language in certain occasions will bring back luck.
Grammatical features of the Ame language:
- SVO basic word order
- prepositions and initial conjunctions
- adjectives, demonstratives, numerals prcede the noun they modify
- morphologically analytic
- neutral alignment
- no distinction in cases, gender, etc.
- definite and indefinite articles
- adjectives being verb-like
The Ame language has a specific avoidance speech used in special occasions. This is due to supersitions that using the regular language in certain occasions will bring back luck.
Grammatical features of the Ame language:
- SVO basic word order
- prepositions and initial conjunctions
- adjectives, demonstratives, numerals prcede the noun they modify
- morphologically analytic
- neutral alignment
- no distinction in cases, gender, etc.
- definite and indefinite articles
- adjectives being verb-like
Sample of Ame language[view] aniitone takazota machi aniitone aniimikanora
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence[view all texts]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeNousa Gulf
⤷ Proto-Ame
⤷ Nousa islands languages
⤷ Ame language
⤷ Proto-Ame
⤷ Nousa islands languages
⤷ Ame language
[view] About Nousa GulfThe Nousa Gulf language family is a language family of indegenous languages surrounding the Nousa Gulf.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | (p) | b | t | d | k | |||||||||||
Fricative | [ɸ]1 | [β]2 | s | z | [ɕ]3 | [ʑ]4 | h | |||||||||
Affricate | [t͡s]5 | [d͡z]6 | [t͡ɕ]7 | [d͡ʑ]8 | ||||||||||||
Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | [ʋ]9 | j | w |
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /w/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | [u]1 [u:]2 | ||||
Mid | e̞ e̞: | o̞ o̞: | ||||
Open | ä ä: |
- allophone of /o̞/
- allophone of /o̞:/
Syllable Structureall syllables in Ame are open syllables, consonant clusters don‘t exist in Ame. The syllable structure in Ame is (C)V(V); besides liquids must be preceded by a vowel in native words.
On the other hand, Ame allows vowel hiatus, two or more vowels can be adjacent with each other.
On the other hand, Ame allows vowel hiatus, two or more vowels can be adjacent with each other.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ame language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Ame languageOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ä/ | AA aa/ä:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch[t͡ɕ] | Dd/d/ | DJ dj[d͡ʑ] | DZ dz[d͡z] | Ee/e̞/ | EI ei/e̞:/ | Ff[ɸ] | Gg/ŋ/ |
Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj[ʑ] | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | OU ou/o̞:/ | Pp/p/1 | Rr/ɺ/ |
Ss/s/ | SH sh[ɕ] | Tt/t/ | TS ts[t͡s] | Uu[u] | UU uu[u:] | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only
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