Mablic [MBI]
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Registered by
litrobotix on 19 January 2019
Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken by a population of around 39,200,000 in:
MablagOfficial
MablagOfficialSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Mablic
blaw9hpla&vwbw2gbyaq
Plaw Hmaephla hngow pweuk pyang!
Welcome to the Mablic Language page!
language Mablic page accept 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you).POLPolite (respect/formality)
formal, polite
Mablic (blaw9hpla Plaw Hmaephla) is a tonal, isolating, and mostly monosyllabic and non-inflecting isolate language. It was inspired by Southeast Asian languages.duh
Features:
- No tense, temporal terms used to imply tense
- Huge system of pronouns, based on person, politeness, and position
- 12 words for how something smells (I don't know why, they're just there)
- System of classifiers based on noun class, of which there are four
- Serial verb construction!
- Habitual, imperative, conditional, passive, negation particles
- Special negative copula
- Question and emphasis markers
Mablic has three different romanization styles (DLR is the most commonly used):
Mablic: kog1ypfprvgda(oyb0
DLR: Khei kauy phai phrok ta hneiy pee
TRMS: Ké gây pá pru̖g da n̖éy bē
YST: Khe3 kai13 pha3 phruuk1 ta1 hnei3 pe2
/kʰɛ́ kâj pʰá~â pʰɾɯ̀k tà~a n̥ɛ́j pɛ̄/
English: The boatman would have taken us across the river
(Gloss: AGEAgent (role)
cause or initiator of event/action boat CONDConditional (mood)
[if X,] then I would... go.boat 1PFirst person plural (person)
we (inclusive or exclusive) river over)
Mablic also has a
Literary Register, used in written works, law, business and in very official conversations. The words in the register are on average longer, and often have no relation to their Standard Mablic counterparts.
Here's a Memrise course for Mablic (WIP!)
addressee (you).POLPolite (respect/formality)
formal, polite
Mablic (blaw9hpla Plaw Hmaephla) is a tonal, isolating, and mostly monosyllabic and non-inflecting isolate language. It was inspired by Southeast Asian languages.
Features:
- No tense, temporal terms used to imply tense
- Huge system of pronouns, based on person, politeness, and position
- 12 words for how something smells (I don't know why, they're just there)
- System of classifiers based on noun class, of which there are four
- Serial verb construction!
- Habitual, imperative, conditional, passive, negation particles
- Special negative copula
- Question and emphasis markers
Mablic has three different romanization styles (DLR is the most commonly used):
Mablic: kog1ypfprvgda(oyb0
DLR: Khei kauy phai phrok ta hneiy pee
TRMS: Ké gây pá pru̖g da n̖éy bē
YST: Khe3 kai13 pha3 phruuk1 ta1 hnei3 pe2
/kʰɛ́ kâj pʰá~â pʰɾɯ̀k tà~a n̥ɛ́j pɛ̄/
English: The boatman would have taken us across the river
(Gloss: AGEAgent (role)
cause or initiator of event/action boat CONDConditional (mood)
[if X,] then I would... go.boat 1PFirst person plural (person)
we (inclusive or exclusive) river over)
Mablic also has a
Literary Register, used in written works, law, business and in very official conversations. The words in the register are on average longer, and often have no relation to their Standard Mablic counterparts.Here's a Memrise course for Mablic (WIP!)
Sample of Mablic[view] "Chhuuy mik prium yee?" / "Au, phing penh trut aenh." / "Nay, penh pai au chhuuy."
"Are you hungry?" / "Uh no, I already ate." / "Okay, I make you something."[view all texts]
"Are you hungry?" / "Uh no, I already ate." / "Okay, I make you something."[view all texts]
Sound samples in Mablic
Some sound samples of Mablic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
"Chhuuy yee phie thrreihng kaing?" Ngii tleuk priuchi. "Ta pauy tienh, pweihng, twae,...
"Would you like something to drink?" She opened the fridge. "We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr...Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
"Would you like something to drink?" She opened the fridge. "We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr...Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Leilu: Chhuutlae?
Tshuitsaukhu: Eiy, ngii phuuk?
Leilu: Penh hnee chhaey phweing, chhuuy ka khei p...
Lelouch: Hello? Suzaku: Hey, what's up? Lelouch: I need your help, can you come here? Suzaku: Eug...
Lelouch: Hello? Suzaku: Hey, what's up? Lelouch: I need your help, can you come here? Suzaku: Eug...
Language family relationships
Language treePrra-Blen
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Proto-Prra-Blen
⤷ North Prra-Blen
⤷ Proto-North-Prrā-Blén
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Mablic
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Proto-Prra-Blen⤷ North Prra-Blen
⤷ Proto-North-Prrā-Blén
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Mablic [view] Nhaepmai Auploing (Literary Register)The register used in literature and formal writing, as well as some formal exchanges.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n n̥ | ŋ ŋ̥ | ɴ ɴ̥ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | k kʰ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | î í ì ī | ɯ̂ ɯ́ ɯ̀ ɯ̄ | û ú ù ū | |
| Open-mid | ɛ̂ ɛ́ ɛ̀ ɛ̄ | |||
| Open | â á à ā | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mablic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| MablicOrthography | ||||||||||
| a Aa /à/ | h Ae ae /ā/ | f Ai ai /á/ | 1 Au au /â/ | j Ch ch /t͡ɕ/ | c Chh chh /t͡ɕʰ/ | e Ee /ɛ̀/ | 0 Ee ee /ɛ̄/ | o Ei ei /ɛ́/ | 2 Eu eu /ɛ̂/ | 9 Hm hm /m̥/ |
| ( Hn hn /n̥/ | & Hng hng /ŋ̥/ | 8 Hnh hnh /ɴ̥/ | i Ii /ì/ | 7 Ie ie /ī/ | 6 Ii ii /í/ | 3 Iu iu /î/ | g Kk /k/ | k Kh kh /kʰ/ | l Ll /l/ | m Mm /m/ |
| n Nn /n/ | q Ng ng /ŋ/ | x Nh nh /ɴ/ | v Oo /ɯ̀/ | + Oe oe /ɯ̄/ | < Oi oi /ɯ́/ | 4 Ou ou /ɯ̂/ | b Pp /p/ | p Ph ph /pʰ/ | r Rr /ɾ/ | ) Rr rr /r/ |
| d Tt /t/ | t Th th /tʰ/ | z Ts ts /t͡s/ | s Tsh tsh /t͡sʰ/ | u Uu /ù/ | = Ue ue /ū/ | > Ui ui /ú/ | 5 Uu uu /û/ | w Ww /w/ | y Yy /j/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
