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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Quaxin XunOfficial
Quaxin XunOfficialSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Mañi
Wa Ñi descendant, which forms the classical language of the various Mañian peoples.
Descendents include:
Contains a number of loans from
Xuni Substrate.
Wa Ñi descendant, which forms the classical language of the various Mañian peoples.Descendents include:
Hlung - polysynthetic, no tone, innovates plural and nominal tense, Mataco-Guaicuruan-inspired demonstrative system
Ndxiixun - fusional, ditches gender, Chinantec-inspired tonal verbal system, CV only, ballistic syllables
Awatese - polysynthetic, simplified 3-gender system, no tone, loads and loads of reduplication, pluractionality
Yachiroese - simplified morphosyntax, CV syllables, Hiragana-inspired script
Nichoh - under heavy construction, morphosyntax not at all decided yet but probably cursed
Maypaw - under heavy construction, animacy as remnant of old gender system, fused evidential/subject marking
Contains a number of loans from
Xuni Substrate.
Sample of Mañi[view] Tinąŋg ąuñ exkowini ruchŗepani, tòniŗàch ŗali tuʼli ontaxkaʼzųmą pyaha "òeñyàhàʼuxni ŋòruyàļàaex."
The gumboot chiton's appearance has led some tidepoolers to fondly refer to it as the "wandering meatloaf".[view all texts]
The gumboot chiton's appearance has led some tidepoolers to fondly refer to it as the "wandering meatloaf".[view all texts]
Sound samples in Mañi
Some sound samples of Mañi. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ñųndòtumeʼ ŋòru ŋòru ñaxʼa nąmmąłà.
Man is a wolf to man.
Man is a wolf to man.
Language family relationships
[view] About NgerupicA large language family from the Akulanen region of Sahar.
Named for Wa Ñi ŋèrup 'people'.
Named for Wa Ñi ŋèrup 'people'.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ð | ʃ | h | |||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||||||||||||||
| Blends | tɬ |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i ì | u ù | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ̃ ɪ̃̀ | ʊ̃ ʊ̃̀ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e è | o ò | ||||||
| Open | a à | ɑ̃ ɑ̃̀ | ||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mañi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MañiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ąą/ɑ̃/ | Àà/à/ | Ą̀ ą̀/ɑ̃̀/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Èè/è/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/h/ | Įį/ɪ̃/ | Ii/i/ | Ìì/ì/ | Į̀ į̀/ɪ̃̀/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Ļļ/ɭ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Ññ/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Òò/ò/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ŗŗ/ɽ/ | Řř/ɻ/ | Tt/t/ | TŁ tł/tɬ/ | Uu/u/ |
| Ùù/ù/ | Ųų/ʊ̃/ | Ų̀ ų̀/ʊ̃̀/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ð/ | Łł/ɬ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ʼ/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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