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Formanian
Farmald
[fʌrmʌlt]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] 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:
  • 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


Sample of Formanian[view] Má, kat Patrik

No, this is Patrick.
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Latest vocabulary
àgušušdanndestruction
onterritory
onland
Language family relationships
Language treeUnarzaic
 ⤷  Proto-Unarzaic
  ⤷ Proto-Parraic
   ⤷ Proto-Continental-Parraic
    ⤷ Classical Porahaian
     ⤷ Middle Porahaian
      ⤷  Formanian
 
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalVelar
Nasal m   n   ɲ [ŋ]1
Plosive p b   t d   c ɟ k g
Fricative   f v s z ʃ ʒ [ç]2 x
Affricate       t͡ʃ d͡ʒ    
Lateral approximant     l   ʎ  
Lateral fricative     [ɬ]3   [ʎ̝̊]4  
Approximant         j  
Trill     r [r̥]5      
Flap     [ɾ]6      
  1. Before velar consonants and word-finally, allophone of /n/
  2. Word-finally, allophone of /j/
  3. Word-finally, allophone of /l/
  4. Word-finally, allophone of /ʎ/
  5. Word-finally, allophone of /r/
  6. Intervocalically, allophone of /r/
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i i: y y: [ɨ]1 [ɨ:]2 [ʉ]3 [ʉ:]4 u u:
Close-mid e: ø: [ɘ:]5 [ɵ:]6 o:
Open-mid ɛ œ [ɜ]7 [ɞ]8 ʌ ɔ
Near-open æ æ:    
Open     ɑ:
  1. After alveolars, allophone of /i/
  2. After alveolars, allophone of /i:/
  3. After alveolars, allophone of /y/
  4. After alveolars, allophone of /y:/
  5. After alveolars, allophone of /e:/
  6. After alveolars, allophone of /ø:/
  7. After alveolars, allophone of /ɛ/
  8. After alveolars, allophone of /œ/
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
Á
Ȁȁ
/æ:/
a
Aa
/ʌ/
á
Àà
/ɑ:/
A
Ää
/æ/
b
Bb
/b/
C
Čč
/t͡ʃ/
d
Dd
/d/
é
Èè
/e:/
e
Ee
/ɛ/
f
Ff
/f/
g
Gg
/g/
G
GY gy
/ɟ/
h
Hh
/x/
í
Ìì
/i:/
i
Ii
/i/
J
J̌ǰ
/d͡ʒ/
y
Jj
/j/
k
Kk
/k/
K
KY ky
/c/
l
Ll
/l/
L
LY ly
/ʎ/
m
Mm
/m/
n
Nn
/n/
N
NY ny
/ɲ/
ó
Òò
/o:/
o
Oo
/ɔ/
Ó
Ȍȍ
/ø:/
O
Öö
/œ/
p
Pp
/p/
r
Rr
/r/
s
Ss
/s/
S
Šš
/ʃ/
t
Tt
/t/
Ú
Ȕȕ
/y:/
U
Üü
/y/
ú
Ùù
/u:/
u
Uu
/u/
v
Vv
/v/
Z
Žž
/ʒ/
z
Zz
/z/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order
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    Typological information for Formanian

    Animacy distinctionsAnimate/Inanimate
    Morphosyntactic alignmentNominative/Accusative
    Number of nominal casesEight cases or more
    Vowel harmonyFront-back

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