Mau [MAW]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mau
Mau Daka is the main imperial language of the Mau empire. It is a court/high level language, its spoken variants are highly divergent.
Sample of Mau[view] 1 Qeas hmuy daka qquea you tipfua qquea hhym ne. 2 Weir gie hha ranoa zhim rroang wa puoe ne, gha Sry Nar nyr eiq gie ngei hmoam way taqqeap puek ttrie ne. 3 Dry, bexe ccoah yepouk dro wa, way pfei hmay ettsre wie khi gha eyek niy sre meing tagha yi ka. Gha eiq gie sre ccoah yepouk ccoah drang way eiq gie sre cehhe oas qqeh drang. 4 Gha dry wie, be...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About MauicThis family is basically the descendants of the imperial Mau language.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n n̥ | ɳ ɳ̥ | ɲ ɲ̥ | ŋ ŋ̥ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | pʰ | b̥ | t̪ʰ | d̪̥ | ʈʼ ʈʰ | ɖ̥ | cʼ cʰ | ɟ̥ | kʼ kʰ | g̥ | qʼ qʰ | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s sʼ | ʂ ʂʼ | ʑ | x | χ | ʕ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | t͡s t͡sʼ | ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʼ | k͡x | q͡χ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | ɻ | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ̪ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | ä | ɒ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | ui | uə | ɨi | ɛy | ɛi | ɨä | uɔ | äi | iɛ | ɒi |
| yə | yø | ɒu | øy | yi | iə | äu |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mau. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MauOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | AU au/äu/ | AY ay/äi/ | Bb/b̥/ | BB bb/ɓ/ | Cc/cʰ/ | CC cc/cʼ/ | Dd/d̪̥/ | DD dd/ɗ̪/ | DR dr/ɖ̥/ |
| Ee/ə/ | EA ea/ɛ/ | EI ei/e/ | EU eu/ɛy/ | EY ey/ɛi/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g̥/ | GH gh/ʕ/ | Hh/h/ | HH hh/χ/ |
| HM hm/m̥/ | HN hn/n̥/ | HNG hng/ŋ̥/ | HNR hnr/ɳ̥/ | HNY hny/ɲ̥/ | Ii/ɨ/ | IA ia/ɨä/ | IE ie/iɛ/ | IY iy/ɨi/ | Jj/ɟ̥/ |
| Kk/kʰ/ | KH kh/k͡x/ | KK kk/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NR nr/ɳ/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ |
| OA oa/ɒ/ | OE oe/ø/ | OEU oeu/øy/ | OU ou/ɒu/ | OY oy/ɒi/ | Pp/pʰ/ | PF pf/p͡ɸ/ | Qq/qʰ/ | QH qh/q͡χ/ | QQ qq/qʼ/ |
| Rr/ɹ/ | RR rr/ɻ/ | Ss/s/ | SR sr/ʂ/ | SS ss/sʼ/ | SSR ssr/ʂʼ/ | Tt/t̪ʰ/ | TR tr/ʈʰ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TSR tsr/ʈ͡ʂ/ |
| TTR ttr/ʈʼ/ | TTS tts/t͡sʼ/ | TTSR ttsr/ʈ͡ʂʼ/ | Uu/u/ | UA ua/uə/ | UE ue/y/ | UEA uea/yə/ | UEY uey/yi/ | UO uo/uɔ/ | UOE uoe/yø/ |
| UY uy/ui/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/i/, /j/ | YA ya/iə/ | ZH zh/ʑ/ | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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