Mírdimin [MIRDN]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mírdimin
While Wialeth is a vast planet, every single mír culture speaks some form of Mírdimin. How could this be? Some say that the old languages were swept away by the wind and replaced with the whispers of the gods. Who is to say if that's the truth?
Sample of Mírdimin[view] Tha daimo hod berrasait ano?
What are we going to do with our furniture?[view all texts]
What are we going to do with our furniture?[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t t̪ | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ʌ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | ɑ ɑ: | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | oʊ | oɪ | eɪ | aɪ |
Stress information- Syllable stress depends on the dominant vowel in the word. This order, from least to most, is generally /ɜ, ɪ, ʌ, ɛ, a, ɔ, ɑ, u, i, oʊ, eɪ, oɪ, aɪ/
- Double consonants put stress on the following syllable.
- Double consonants put stress on the following syllable.
OtherSound changes and shifts:
- At the end of a 2+ syllable word, /ɑ/ shifts to /ɜ/ although there is no change visually. This rule does not apply to /ɑ:/
- At the end of any word, /ɔ/ shifts to /oʊ/ although there is no change visually.
- A word cannot end with "i, e, ä, ü" /ɪ, ɛ, a, ʌ/ and instead they shift to "í, ë*, u" /i, ɜ*, u/ (*e, ä both to ë /ɜ/)
- If two of "ä" or "a" end up next to each other, the sound is combined into "ai" /aɪ/.
- At the end of a 2+ syllable word, /ɑ/ shifts to /ɜ/ although there is no change visually. This rule does not apply to /ɑ:/
- At the end of any word, /ɔ/ shifts to /oʊ/ although there is no change visually.
- A word cannot end with "i, e, ä, ü" /ɪ, ɛ, a, ʌ/ and instead they shift to "í, ë*, u" /i, ɜ*, u/ (*e, ä both to ë /ɜ/)
- If two of "ä" or "a" end up next to each other, the sound is combined into "ai" /aɪ/.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mírdimin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MírdiminOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa as /ɑ/ | Bb ebé /b/ | Cc ecé /k/ | Dd edé /d/ | Éé és /eɪ/ | Ee es /ɛ/ | Ëë ës /ɜ/ | Ff efé /f/ | Gg egé /g/ | Hh ehé /h/ |
| Íí ís /i/ | Ii is /ɪ/ | Jj ejé /d͡ʒ/ | Ll elé /ǀ/ | Mm emé /m/ | Nn ené /n/ | Óó ós /oʊ/ | Oo os /ɔ/ | Pp epé /p/ | Qq eqé /t͡ʃ/ |
| Rr eré /ɹ/ | Ss esé /s/ | Tt eté /t/ | Uu ús /u/ | Vv evé /v/ | Yy eyé /j/ | TH th/t̪/ | Üü us /ʌ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
