Ifei [IVEI]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ifei
A tiny language with a tiny alphabetical arrange and a fun phonological array of different options.
Close-centered vowels and nasal, plosive and fricative consonant sounds flood this language intoalmost a whispering mumble a beautiful melody.
Sentences are SVO
Six cases:
Adjectival agreement through case
A very peculiar base 4 number system
Past, present and affixed future
Actor led (whatever that means)I know what it means dw
Copula-declensed adjectives
Mostly affixed markers for everything
Oh, and prenasalisation and glottal stops everywhere
Close-centered vowels and nasal, plosive and fricative consonant sounds flood this language into
Sentences are SVO
Six cases:
- Nominative
- Accusative
- Dative
- Genitive
- Instrumental-comitative
- Locative
Adjectival agreement through case
A very peculiar base 4 number system
Past, present and affixed future
Actor led (
- Possessee first
- Described noun first
Copula-declensed adjectives
Mostly affixed markers for everything
Oh, and prenasalisation and glottal stops everywhere
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Epiglottal | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m ᵐm | [ɱ]1 [ⁿɱ]2 | n̪ ⁿn̪ | n ⁿn | [ɳ]3 [ᶯɳ]4 | |||||||||
Plosive | b ᵐb | [b̪]5 [ⁿb̪]6 | d̪ ⁿd̪ | d ⁿd | [ɖ]7 [ᶯɖ]8 | [ʡ]9 | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | β ᵐβ | [f]10 | v ⁿv | ð ⁿð | s ⁿs | ʂ ᶯʂ |
- Before i /ɨ/ or iu /ɯ:/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /m/
- Before i /ɨ/ or iu /ɯ:/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /ᵐm/
- Before i /ɨ/ or iu /ɯ:/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /n/
- Before i /ɨ/ or iu /ɯ:/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /ⁿn/
- Before ë /ɘ/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /b/
- Before ë /ɘ/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /ᵐb/
- Before ë /ɘ/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /d/
- Before ë /ɘ/, but not after x /ʔ/, allophone of /ⁿd/
- When initial or doubled, allophone of /ʔ/
- When final, between i /ɨ/ and e /ě/, e /ě/ and e /ě/, or ui /ɯ:/ and e /ě/, allophone of /v/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | ɨ | [ɯ:]1 | u | ||
Close-mid | [e]2 eˑ | ɘ |
- Union of ui or iu, allophone of /u/
- When in between b /b/ and m /m/, b /b/ and n /n/, d /d/ and m /m/, or d /d/ and n /n/ , allophone of /eˑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ifei. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
IfeiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
-// | Bb be /b/ | B' b' eb'e /ᵐb/ | Ḏḏ ḏe /d̪/ | Dd de /d/ | D' d' ed'e /ⁿd/ | Ḏ' ḏ' eḏ'e /ⁿd̪/ | Ëë ë /ɘ/ | Ee e /eˑ/ | Ii i /ɨ/ |
Ïï ï /i/ | Mm mi /m/ | M' m' im'i /ᵐm/ | Ńń ńi /n̪/ | Nn ni /n/ | Ń' ń' iń'i /ⁿn̪/ | N' n' in'i /ⁿn/ | Śś śï /ʂ/ | Ss sï /s/ | SSß ßi /β/ |
Ś' ś' ïś'ï /ᶯʂ/ | SS' ß' eß'i /ᵐβ/ | S' s' ïs'ï /ⁿs/ | Tt tï /ð/ | T' t' ït'ï /ⁿð/ | Uu u /u/ | Vv vi /v/ | V' v' iv'i /ⁿv/ | Xx ied /ʔ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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