Classical Mban [CMBAN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Classical Mban
Daughter language to Classical Darimic and a part of the grand Tiengic Language Family.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | mʲ m̩ʲ m̩ˠ mˠ | nʲ n̩ʲ n̩ˠ nˠ | ŋʲ ŋ̩ʲ ŋ̩ˠ ŋˠ | |||||||||
| Plosive | pʲ pˠ | bʲ bˠ | tʲ tˠ | dʲ dˠ | k kʲ | g gʲ | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | sʲ | zʲ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | [lʲ]1 lˠ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||
| Trill | [rʲ]2 rˠ | |||||||||||
- allophone of /lˠ/
- allophone of /rˠ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | [i]1 | ɨ | u2 | |||
| Close-mid | [e]3 | ɘ | o4 | |||
| Near-open | [æ]5 | ɐ | ||||
| Open | ɒ6 | |||||
- allophone of /ɨ/
- also an allophone of /ɨ/
- allophone of /ɘ/
- also an allophone of /ɘ/
- allophone of /ɐ/
- also an allophone of /ɐ/
Syllable Structure({C,SF}(A)V(A)(C)
S = /p b t d k g/ + secondary articulations
F = /s z/
A = /r l j w/
S = /p b t d k g/ + secondary articulations
F = /s z/
A = /r l j w/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Classical Mban. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Classical MbanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/, [æ] | Åå/ɒ/1 | Bb/bˠ/ | BY by/bʲ/ | Dd/dˠ/ | DY dy/dʲ/ | Ee/ɘ/, [e] | Gg/g/ | GY gy/gʲ/ | Ii/ɨ/, [i] | Kk/k/ |
| KY ky/kʲ/ | Ll/lˠ/, [lʲ] | Mm/mˠ/, /m̩ˠ/ | MY my/mʲ/, /m̩ʲ/ | Nn/nˠ/, /n̩ˠ/ | NY ny/nʲ/, /n̩ʲ/ | Oo/o/2 | Pp/pˠ/ | PY py/pʲ/ | Rr/rˠ/, [rʲ] | Ss/sʲ/ |
| Tt/tˠ/ | TY ty/tʲ/ | Uu/u/3 | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/zʲ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋˠ/, /ŋ̩ˠ/ | ŊY ŋy/ŋʲ/, /ŋ̩ʲ/ | ʔ/ʔ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- also an allophone of /ɐ/
- also an allophone of /ɘ/
- also an allophone of /ɨ/
