Maijengh [MJGH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Maijengh
Maijengh is an extinct substrate language that was spoken in and around present-day Dashar, Khezan, and Oyazan, and was the government language of the Maijengh Khanate which ruled in the aforementioned areas. It was an Eastern Vaniuan language in the Zaghammic branch, despite its Western Vaniuan surroundings, with its closest relative being the Tokeshsan language, spoken in minorities in and around Fukota.
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Language treeVaniuan
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Proto-Vaniu
⤷ Proto-Eastern Vaniuan
⤷ Ancient Zaghammic
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Maijengh
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Proto-Vaniu⤷ Proto-Eastern Vaniuan
⤷ Ancient Zaghammic
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Maijengh[view] About VaniuanThe Vaniuan language is a family of languages originating from a disputed urheimat of either Western Parshita or around Lake Melkanchuta. Its descendant languages consist of around an estimated 400-700 Million speakers with varying phonologies, vocab...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||||||||
| Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ʝ]1 | x | ɣ | ʁ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | [ɮ]2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
- word-initially, allophone of /j/
- word-initially, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
| Mid | e̞ | ə | o̞ | |||
| Near-open | [æ]1 | |||||
| Open | ɑ | [ɒ]2 | ||||
| Polyphthongs | ɨə̯ | əi̯ | uə̯ | æə̯ | æi̯ | o̞ə̯ | iə̯ | ɒə̯ | eu̯ | ɑu̯ |
- before nasals, allophone of /e̞/
- before nasals, allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Maijengh. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| MaijenghOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Áá/ɒə̯/ | Aa/ɑ/, [ɒ]1 | Bb/b/ | Cc/d͡ʒ/ | Çç/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/, [æ]2 | Éé/æə̯/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/j/, /i/, [ʝ]3 | Íí/iə̯/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/l/, [ɮ]4 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ņņ/ɲ/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Óó/o̞ə̯/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/ʁ/ | Şş/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Úú/uə̯/ |
| Uu/w/, /u/, [v]5 | Vv/v/ | Ýý/ɨə̯/ | Yy/ɨ/ | Zz/z/ | Þþ/ɬ/ | Əə/ə/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- before nasals
- before nasals
- word-initially
- word-initially
- word-initially
