Ukamayan (old) [IOO]
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Ka ragi Ōkama [ka ɺaŋi ókama]*
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Ka ragi Ōkama [ka ɺaŋi ókama]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ukamayan (old)
Ukamayan is another attempt to create a language with a minimalistic phonology, and it's based on Polynesian languages and a little bit of Tagalog and Japanese. The grammar is a collection of features that do not exist in European languages, and it is designed to have a simple but very alien grammar. Despite the name, Ukamayan has nothing to do with Mayan languages.
Ā ka laŋi Ōkama 'iomitihe nawi ka ōki ŋati'eŋamōi milaŋi nai keamai mikakālikāli mookini, ŋana na ŋawāka ka laŋi Wolinehia, na tiŋawāka ka laŋi na Niōŋiko na Takāloko wa weso'itāi. Ā ka koŋilaŋi wie ŋa'oāŋi mimeta nai 'emoi teŋōi wi ka laŋi Iolō'a, ŋanato i ka ōki na lōŋoe na 'ekai wa ti'eŋōi. Ā "ukamayan" i ka laŋi Īŋilani, koamo ŋai ka laŋi Maia wa 'ei ōe.
Some features:
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Ā ka laŋi Ōkama 'iomitihe nawi ka ōki ŋati'eŋamōi milaŋi nai keamai mikakālikāli mookini, ŋana na ŋawāka ka laŋi Wolinehia, na tiŋawāka ka laŋi na Niōŋiko na Takāloko wa weso'itāi. Ā ka koŋilaŋi wie ŋa'oāŋi mimeta nai 'emoi teŋōi wi ka laŋi Iolō'a, ŋanato i ka ōki na lōŋoe na 'ekai wa ti'eŋōi. Ā "ukamayan" i ka laŋi Īŋilani, koamo ŋai ka laŋi Maia wa 'ei ōe.
Some features:
- Hierachial alignment
- Hierarchial word order
- Distinction between primary and secondary object
- Floats somewhere between analytic and agglutinating
- Verb conjugation using infixes
- No distinction between wh-Questions and yes/no-questions
The dictionary is out of date. I'm storing the updated one offline.
Sample of Ukamayan (old)[view] Ŋāti ōe ŋa'etōi atomītai ŋanai atofia nasosēi 'āki fie, ŋaia ŋaatomītai ŋanai fia keiosāi ōe fie fa sosōi.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.[view all texts]
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Ukamayan (old)
Some sound samples of Ukamayan (old). Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
A oi ‘ākita goa goa, ka’ai heo fīikio gai kisitamāso a ‘Ōoga.
Sokai ‘i ka tii faitēa ga i korāsai ‘...
Once upon a time there was a boy named Wona. He lived in a small hut at the edge of the village. W...
Once upon a time there was a boy named Wona. He lived in a small hut at the edge of the village. W...
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | t | k | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | [ɕ]1 | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ɕ]2 | |||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||
- before /i/, allophone of /s/
- before /i/, allophone of /t/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i í | |||
| Close-mid | e é | o ó | ||
| Open | a á1 | |||
- Marks pitch accent, not phoemic tone.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ukamayan (old). This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Ukamayan (old)Orthography | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Āā/á/1 | Aa/a/ | Ee/e/ | Ēē/é/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/ŋ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Īī/í/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/ó/ | Rr/ɺ/ | Ss/s/, [ɕ]2 | Tt/t/, [t͡ɕ]3 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
- Marks pitch accent, not phoemic tone.
- before /i/
- before /i/
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