D's'mbunun [DMB]
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D's'mbunun
D's'mbunun [dʌsɨɱb̪ʊnʊn]
D's'mbununD's'mbunun [dʌsɨɱb̪ʊnʊn]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | [ɲ]2 | ŋ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | [p̪]3 | [b̪]4 | t | d | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]5 | [w]6 | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- Only occurs before /b/ and /p/, allophone of /m/
- Only occurs before front vowels, allophone of /ŋ/
- Occurs after stops, allophone of /p/
- Occurs after stops, allophone of /b/
- Only occurs word-initially, allophone of /i/
- Only occurs word-initially, allophone of /u/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | [ɨ]1 | u | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]2 | [ʊ]3 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | [e]4 e: | [o]5 o: | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||||||||
| Open | [a]6 a: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | oɪ | aə7 | aʊ | aɪ | eɪ | aɛ |
- Unstressed variant, allophone of /ʌ/
- Unstressed variant, allophone of /i/
- Unstressed Variant, allophone of /u/
- Unstressed variant, allophone of /e:/
- Unstressed variant, allophone of /o:/
- Unstressed variant, allophone of /a:/
- Obsolete for much of the languages life, becomes a:
Orthography
Below is the orthography for D's'mbunun. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 D's'mbununOrthography | |||||||||
| '/ʌ/, [ɨ]1 | Aa/a:/, [a]2 | A' a'/aə/3 | AE ae/aɛ/ | AI ai/aɪ/ | AU au/aʊ/ | Bb/b/, [b̪]4 | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e:/, [e]5 |
| EI ei/eɪ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ]6, [j]7 | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/, [ɱ]8 | Ṅṅ/ŋ/, [ɲ]9 | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o:/, [o]10 | OI oi/oɪ/ | Pp/p/, [p̪]11 | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ]12, [w]13 | Vv/v/ | Xx/ʃ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
- Unstressed variant
- Unstressed variant
- Obsolete for much of the languages life, becomes a:
- Occurs after stops
- Unstressed variant
- Unstressed variant
- Only occurs word-initially
- Only occurs before /b/ and /p/
- Only occurs before front vowels
- Unstressed variant
- Occurs after stops
- Unstressed Variant
- Only occurs word-initially
