Maypaw [MYP]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Quaxin XunRegional
Quaxin XunRegionalSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Maypaw
another 
Mañi baby
features include:
- fused evidentiality/subject marking
- clusivity only marked on transitive verbs
- future/present distinction marked only by stem tone change
- a plural clitic that goes wherever it wants and fuses to whatever it wants
- register tone system with three registers (high modal, mid creaky, low modal)
- frankly indecent amounts of <z> /ʒ/
Mañi babyfeatures include:
- fused evidentiality/subject marking
- clusivity only marked on transitive verbs
- future/present distinction marked only by stem tone change
- a plural clitic that goes wherever it wants and fuses to whatever it wants
- register tone system with three registers (high modal, mid creaky, low modal)
- frankly indecent amounts of <z> /ʒ/
Sample of Maypaw[view] Tézap ru ânâl nâꞌân sónch o.
A woman washes cassava in the river.[view all texts]
A woman washes cassava in the river.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Wa Ñi[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 | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ʒ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i ḭ í | u ṵ ú | ||
| Close-mid | e ḛ é | o o̰ ó | ||
| Open | a a̰ á | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Maypaw. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MaypawOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/á/ | Ââ/a̰/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | DX dx/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/e/ | Êê/ḛ/ | Éé/é/ | Íí/í/ | Ii/i/ | Îî/ḭ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Óó/ó/ | Ôô/o̰/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Úú/ú/ | Uu/u/ | Ûû/ṵ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ꞌꞌ/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
