New Maiya [NMYA]
▲
1▲ 1 ▼ 0
Registered by
icexemperor on 29 March 2021
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About New Maiya
ahai a maiyaeion ti lyuda konwérkśap
[ahai a maiyaeion ti lyuda konwérkśap]
Welcome to New Maiya's ConWorkShop summary :)
This conlang started as a natural type, made to fit in with SE Asian and pacific languages. now it's just my random brainchild ig
Distinguishing features:
-VSO word order
-alienability distinction
-animacy distinction
-an unnecessarily large amount of pronouns/articles
-almost no distinction between nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. 🙂
[ahai a maiyaeion ti lyuda konwérkśap]
This conlang started as a natural type, made to fit in with SE Asian and pacific languages. now it's just my random brainchild ig
Distinguishing features:
-VSO word order
-alienability distinction
-animacy distinction
-an unnecessarily large amount of pronouns/articles
-almost no distinction between nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. 🙂
Sample of New Maiya[view] tu ran en yu naimo ídoe toya ti śírí íi, i haken heya í maisyo paiyen. / lo silénzya e tu ti one.
Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters... / The silence is your answer.[view all texts]
Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters... / The silence is your answer.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷
New Maiya
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷
New Maiya[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
[view] Common Maiya (Common Maiya)Basic New Maiya dialect often used by younger folk.
[view] Southern Maiya (Southern Maiya)Kept alive via older generations that haven't dropped their archaic pronunciations.
[view] Standardized New Maiya (Standardized New Maiya)The official government-decided dialect for the language.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | (x) | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i: | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e [ě]1 | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ai | ao | au | oi | ei |
- sounds like é but short, found in words written with "ae"
Orthography
Below is the orthography for New Maiya. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| New MaiyaOrthography | |||||||||||
| a a /a/ | e e /ɛ/ | i i /ɪ/ | o o /o/ | u u /u/ | á á /a/ | é é /e/, /e/ | í í /i:/ | ó ó /o/ | ú ú /u/ | ai ai /ai/ | ao ao /ao/ |
| au au /au/ | ei ei /ei/ | oi oi /oi/ | b b /b/ | d d /d/ | f f /f/ | g g /g/ | h h /h/ | j j /d͡ʒ/ | k k /k/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ |
| n n /n/ | p p /p/ | r r /ɾ/ | s s /s/ | t t /t/ | v v /v/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | z z /z/ | ś ś /ʃ/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Lessons (2)
