Luyman [LYMA]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersLuyman is spoken in Daluyo.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Luyman
The largest member of the Coastal branch of Eastern Insular Lahiri languages. It is the lingua franca of Daluyo and the only official language of the country. It's features include:
- 9 noun classes with relevancy in noun declension, pronouns and animacy hierarchy
- Head-initiality, with prepositions being one of few exceptions
- Strict animacy hierarchy, which affects mainly word order and valency, which are linked together
- Three tones (that can be analysed as pitch-accent)
- A lot of demonstrative pronouns that differ by proximity, gender etc. (tbd)
- 9 noun classes with relevancy in noun declension, pronouns and animacy hierarchy
- Head-initiality, with prepositions being one of few exceptions
- Strict animacy hierarchy, which affects mainly word order and valency, which are linked together
- Three tones (that can be analysed as pitch-accent)
- A lot of demonstrative pronouns that differ by proximity, gender etc. (tbd)
Language family relationships
Language treeLahiri
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Proto-Lahiri
⤷ Insular Lahiri
⤷ Proto-East-Insular
⤷ Coastal
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Luyman
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Proto-Lahiri⤷ Insular Lahiri
⤷ Proto-East-Insular
⤷ Coastal
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Luyman[view] About LahiriSpoken on Lahan, on Sahar.
diachronics worksheet
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | [ç]1 | x2 | [h]3 | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
- Before /i/ and sometimes /e/, allophone of /x/
- Before /o/ and /u/
- Before /a/ and sometimes /e/, allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | î í ì | û ú ù | ||
| Close-mid | ê é è | ô ó ò | ||
| Open | â á à | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Luyman. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| LuymanOrthography | |||||||||
| Ll Ll /l/ | Bb Bb /b/ | Pp Pp /p/ | Vv Ff /f/ | F f PH ph /pʰ/ | Ww Ww /w/ | Ss Ss /s/ | Zz Zz /z/ | Dd Dd /d/ | Tt Tt /t/ |
| Kk Kk /k/ | Gg Gg /g/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Jj Cc /t͡s/ | Ç ç CZ cz /t͡ʃ/ | C c SZ sz /ʃ/ | Þ þ TH th /tʰ/ | Q q KH kh /kʰ/ | Nn Nn /n/ | Ŋŋ Ŋŋ /ŋ/ |
| Yy Yy /j/ | Hh Hh /x/1, [h]2, [ç]3 | Aa Aa /à/ | Áá Áá /á/ | Àà Àà /â/ | Ii Ii /ì/ | Íí Íí /í/ | Ìì Ìì /î/ | Ee Ee /è/ | Éé Éé /é/ |
| Èè Èè /ê/ | Oo Oo /ò/ | Óó Óó /ó/ | Òò Òò /ô/ | Uu Uu /ù/ | Úú Úú /ú/ | Ùù Ùù /û/ | |||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- Before /o/ and /u/
- Before /a/ and sometimes /e/
- Before /i/ and sometimes /e/
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