Modern Manish [MODM]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Modern Manish
This is the most widely spoken language in Aior. It is spoken natively in Cartondin and Terithius, and it is used as a lingua franca in most of the rest of the world. It is agglutinative and heavily simplified compared to Old Manish, from which it descends.
Language family relationships
Language treeManish
⤷ Ancient Manish
⤷ Western Manish
⤷ Old Plains Manish
⤷ Old Manish
⤷ Middle Manish
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Modern Manish
⤷ Ancient Manish
⤷ Western Manish
⤷ Old Plains Manish
⤷ Old Manish
⤷ Middle Manish
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Modern Manish[view] About ManishThe largest language family on Aior, spoken mostly by humans and by most humans. Some Kidrue also speak Manish languages, and many Orcs living in Manish lands have learned Manish languages. The family includes Modern Manish, the most widely spoken la...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | v | θ | s | z | (ʃ) | (ʒ) | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]2 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- /n/ is pronounced /ŋ/ before velar consonants, allophone of /n/
- allophone of /ɪ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ1 | |||||
| Open | a | ɑ̈2 | ||||
- In the Terithian dialect, this is pronounced [e]
- Some dialects pronounce this even more centralized
Syllable StructureTypically, every vowel is considered the nucleus of its own syllable. However, /ɪ/ is pronounced [j] between vowels, and thus does not constitute its own syllable in those cases. A vowel may be preceded by any single consonant. It may also be preceded by a stop or fricative + liquid cluster. However, /dl/ and /tl/ never occur. /n/, /l/, or a fricative may end a syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Modern Manish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Modern ManishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ââ/ɑ̈/1 | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/2 | Gg/g/ | Îî/ɪ/, [j] | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/3 | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/, [ŋ]4 | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/5 | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- Some dialects pronounce this even more centralized
- In the Terithian dialect, this is pronounced [e]
- loan words only
- /n/ is pronounced /ŋ/ before velar consonants
- loan words only
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Modern Manish Verbs
A summary of the verb conjugation of Modern Manish
05-Mar-20 22:32
