Matako [MTK]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Matako
An agglutinative, predominantly prefixing language spoken by the proud citizens of the Mawang Empire. Matak is ergative and features polypersonal marking on verbs as well as seven noun cases.
Sample of Matako[view] Bokkaet emmpaik angaum koeyo anit igou ungna bokkaet daung kosau anitit.
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.[view all texts]
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About IppumianThis language family extends over the western and northern part of Chounkai as well as much of Daachoi. It's characterized by ergativity, VSO word order, its pre-nasalized consonants, many noun cases, and polypersonal marking on verbs. The most spoke...
[view] Huokai (Western Matak)Spoken in the western region of Mawang and most of the western isles. Developed a glottal stop, long vowels and some other shit
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ ᵐp | t tʼ ⁿt | d | ʈ ʈʼ ᶯʈ | ɖ | k kʼ ᵑk | g | (ʔ) | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʂ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i (i:) | u (u:) | ||||
| Close-mid | e (e:) | o (o:) | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a (a:) | |||||
| Polyphthongs | au | ai |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Matako. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MatakoOrthography | ||||||||||
| '/ʔ/1 | Āā/a:/2 | Aa/a/ | AI ai/ai/ | AU au/au/ | Bb/ɓ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | CH ch/ʈ͡ʂ/ | Dd/d/ | DR dr/ɖ/ | Ēē/e:/3 |
| Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Īī/i:/4 | Kk/k/ | KK kk/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | MP mp/ᵐp/ |
| Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NK nk/ᵑk/ | NN nn/ɳ/ | NT nt/ⁿt/ | NTR ntr/ᶯʈ/ | Oo/o/ | Ōō/o:/5 | OU ou/ə/ | Pp/p/ | PP pp/pʼ/ |
| Rr/ɻ/ | Ss/s/ | SS ss/ʂ/ | Tt/t/ | TR tr/ʈ/ | TT tt/tʼ/ | TTR ttr/ʈʼ/ | Ūū/u:/6 | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
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