Formanian [MLV]
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Registered by
total pleb on 28 November 2016
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-Unarzaic⤷ Proto-Parraic
⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
⤷ Classical Porahaian
⤷ Middle Porahaian
⤷
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 | |||||||||
| Ii/i/ | Yy/j/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Aa/ä/ | Ää/æ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Öö/ø/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/v/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Ll/l̪/ | LY ly/ʎ/ | Zz/z̪/ | Źź/ʒ/ | Ss/s̪/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Rr/r̪/ |
| Bb/b/ | Pp/p/ | Ff/f/ | Dd/d̪/ | DŹ dź/d͡ʒ/ | Tt/t̪/ | TŚ tś/t͡ʃ/ | Gg/g/ | GY gy/ɟ/ | Kk/k/ |
| KY ky/c/ | Hh/x/ | A̋ a̋/æ:/ | Áá/ɑ:/ | Éé/e:/ | Íí/i:/ | Óó/o:/ | Úú/u:/ | Őő/ø:/ | Űű/y:/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
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