Bahasa Australia [BAUS]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersBahasa Australia is spoken by a population of around 15,000,000 in the Sultanate of Australia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Bahasa Australia
First a posteriori conlang of mine.
A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in an alternate version of Australia.
Includes austronesian alignment, retroflex consonants, three vowels and loanwords from Sanskrit, Aboriginal languages and Dutch.
A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in an alternate version of Australia.
Includes austronesian alignment, retroflex consonants, three vowels and loanwords from Sanskrit, Aboriginal languages and Dutch.
Sample of Bahasa Australia[view] Awad sampulha-ima thathahun.
I am fifteen years old.[view all texts]
I am fifteen years old.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Sunda-Sulawesi
⤷ Sunda-Australic
⤷ Australic
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Bahasa Australia
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Sunda-Sulawesi
⤷ Sunda-Australic
⤷ Australic
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Bahasa Australia[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | [ɲ] | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ] | [d͡ʒ] | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | ɭ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e1 | o2 | ||
| Open | a | |||
- Marginal- occurs only in interjections, onomatopoeia and loanwords.
- Marginal- occurs only in interjections, onomatopoeia and loanwords.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Bahasa Australia. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Bahasa AustraliaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/ɖ/ | DH dh/d̪/ | Ee/e/1 | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/ɭ/ | LH lh/l̪/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/ɳ/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NH nh/n̪/ | Oo/o/2 | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɻ/ |
| RH rh/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/ʈ/ | TH th/t̪/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- Marginal- occurs only in interjections, onomatopoeia and loanwords.
- Marginal- occurs only in interjections, onomatopoeia and loanwords.
