Formanian [MLV]
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Registered by
total pleb on 28 November 2016
Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersFormanian is spoken in Formanian Union.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Formanian
Formanian is the official language and lingua franca of the Formanian Union, and is a member of the Parraic family, which is somewhat inspired and influenced by languages such as Hungarian. Throughout the ages it has evolved from a mere nomadic tongue to a greatly influential regional language.
Grammatical features:
Formanian is the official language and lingua franca of the Formanian Union, and is a member of the Parraic family, which is somewhat inspired and influenced by languages such as Hungarian. Throughout the ages it has evolved from a mere nomadic tongue to a greatly influential regional language.
Grammatical features:
- Highly agglutinative
- Fluid-S alignment
- 17 cases, including many locative cases
- Topic-comment word order
- Animate/inanimate noun classes
- Front/back vowel harmony
- Adjectives agree based on animacy, with a select few also agreeing based on vowel harmony
Language family relationships
Language treeUnarzaic
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Proto-Unarzaic
⤷ Proto-Parraic
⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
⤷ Classical Porahaian
⤷ Middle Porahaian
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Formanian
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Proto-Unarzaic⤷ Proto-Parraic
⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
⤷ Classical Porahaian
⤷ Middle Porahaian
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FormanianPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | c | ɟ | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s̪ | z̪ | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]2 | x | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | ʎ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r̪ [r̪̥]3 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ̪]4 | |||||||||||||
- Before velar consonants, allophone of /n̪/
- Before i, i: e, and ɛ, allophone of /x/
- Word-finally, allophone of /r̪/
- Intervocalically, allophone of /r̪/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e: | ø ø: | o: | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
| Open | ä | ɑ: | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Formanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| FormanianOrthography | ||||||||||
| i i /i/ | y y /j/ | e e /ɛ/ | a a /ä/ | á ä /æ/ | o o /ɔ/ | ó ö /ø/ | u u /u/ | ú ü /y/ | w v /v/ | m m /m/ |
| n n /n̪/ | ny ny /ɲ/ | l l /l̪/ | ly ly /ʎ/ | z z /z̪/ | ź ź /ʒ/ | s s /s̪/ | ś ś /ʃ/ | r r /r̪/ | b b /b/ | p p /p/ |
| f f /f/ | d d /d̪/ | x dź /d͡ʒ/ | t t /t̪/ | ć tś /t͡ʃ/ | g g /g/ | gy gy /ɟ/ | k k /k/ | ky ky /c/ | h h /x/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
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