Monyo [EKM]
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Registered by
Katrasho on 28 June 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Monyo
Monyo is spoken as a native language throughout 
Yakormonyo and is its official language. It is an analytical, semi-agglutinating language, which uses markers for all grammatical forms (except plural). There are no interrogative pronouns, instead a particle/adposition is added at the end of the sentence which corresponds to the answer one wants to get. If it is a polar question, only intonation is changed.
Yakormonyo and is its official language. It is an analytical, semi-agglutinating language, which uses markers for all grammatical forms (except plural). There are no interrogative pronouns, instead a particle/adposition is added at the end of the sentence which corresponds to the answer one wants to get. If it is a polar question, only intonation is changed.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
| Nasal | n | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||
| Plosive | t | k | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸˢ | s | ʃ | x | ||||||
| Approximant | [j]2 | |||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | |||||||||
| Blends | tɸ |
- before /k/, /ɾ/ and /x/, allophone of /n/
- before vowels, allophone of /i/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | |||||
| Open-mid | ɜ1 | ʌ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | ʌɪ | ɑʌ |
- formerly /ɯ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Monyo. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MonyoOrthography | |||||||||||||
| Aa Aa /a/ | Ii Ii /i/, [j]1 | Ff Ff /ɸˢ/ | Pp Pp /tɸ/ | Mm Mm /ɓ/ | Nn Nn /n/, [ŋ]2 | Oo Oo /ʌ/ | Uu Uu /ɜ/3 | Ss Ss /s/ | Xx Xx /ʃ/ | Tt Tt /t/ | Rr Rr /ɾ/ | Kk Kk /k/ | Hh Hh /x/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||||||
- before vowels
- before /k/, /ɾ/ and /x/
- formerly /ɯ/
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Figures of Speech in Monyo
self-explanatory
29-Jan-19 10:04
