Sumii [SMI]
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Sumii
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sumii
Sumii, as it is in the setting of my w.i.p. novel The Sea Sings, is a fairly recent language, spoken in the arctic country of Saumalt. Though both Drenmærni and Sumii are descended (distantly) from the same ancestral tongue, they are almost wholly different languages from the standpoint of their lexicons. Sumii is a relatively primitive language, with its only writing system existing solely for carving into stone to create monuments (though some Sumes have taken up learning to write).
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Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||
| Near-open | æ | |||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | oʊ | aɪ | eɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sumii. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SumiiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ää/æ/ | AI ai/eɪ/ | AU au/aʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EI ei/aɪ/ | Ff/f/ |
| Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/oʊ/ | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/ɻ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/ð/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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