Formanian [MLV]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Formanian
WIP, page being restructured I guess
Formanian is a language belonging to the Parraic branch of the Unarzaic family.
Some features of Formanian:
Formanian is a language belonging to the Parraic branch of the Unarzaic family.
Some features of Formanian:
- Agglutinative morphology
- 17 cases, including a wealth of locative ones
- Front/back vowel harmony
- Two-way animacy distinction
- COMING SOON: PROPER DIACHRONICS!
- whatever else i forgot to add back to this list after i accidentally wiped it oof

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-Parraic
⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
⤷ Classical Porahaian
⤷ Middle Porahaian
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Phonology
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.
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a Aa /ä/ | á Áá /ɑ:/ | A Ää /æ/ | Á A̋ a̋ /æ:/ | b Bb /b/ | C Čč /t͡ʃ/ | d Dd /d̪/ | é Éé /e:/ | e Ee /ɛ/ | f Ff /f/ |
g Gg /g/ | G GY gy /ɟ/ | h Hh /x/ | í Íí /i:/ | i Ii /i/ | J J̌ǰ /d͡ʒ/ | j Jj /j/ | k Kk /k/ | K KY ky /c/ | l Ll /l̪/ |
L LY ly /ʎ/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n̪/ | N NY ny /ɲ/ | ó Óó /o:/ | O Öö /ø/ | o Oo /ɔ/ | Ó Őő /ø:/ | p Pp /p/ | r Rr /r̪/ |
s Ss /s̪/ | S Šš /ʃ/ | t Tt /t̪/ | Ú Űű /y:/ | U Üü /y/ | ú Úú /u:/ | u Uu /u/ | v Vv /v/ | Z Žž /ʒ/ | z Zz /z̪/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
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