A'oonirobi [UBD]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About A'oonirobi
Spoken by frog people who can neither round their lips nor produce voiceless phonemes easily, hence the strange phonological inventory.
Language family relationships
Language treeHepteidola
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A'oonirobi
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A'oonirobi[view] About HepteidolaLanguages of The Seven Seams organized by natural and divine languages, with the former being categorized by continent of origin while the latter being organized by deity responsible.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | b | d | ɟ | g | ɢ1 | ʔ | ||||||||
| Fricative | [β]2 | v | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ3 | ||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ʀ | |||||||||||
- intervocalic sandhi used in spoken speech
- preceding any trill, allophone of /v/
- intervocalic sandhi used in spoken speech
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: ĩ: ĩ | ɯ ɯ: ɯ̃: ɯ̃ | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: ɛ̃: ɛ̃ | ʌ ʌ: ʌ̃: ʌ̃ | ||
Syllable StructureAll syllables have the nucleus of any vowel (V), there can optionally be an onset of:
(1) any consonant (C) or
(2) any bilabial or labio-dental followed by a non-bilabial trill (Ŕ)
and finally those can be followed optionally by a coda of any consonant except [j]. Thus: (C⊻BŔ)V(C*)
Additionally a syllable with a onset of a glottal stop cannot be preceded by a syllable with a coda consisting of a glottal stop. Thus, (C⊻BŔ)Vʕ.ʕV(C*) is not permitted.
(1) any consonant (C) or
(2) any bilabial or labio-dental followed by a non-bilabial trill (Ŕ)
and finally those can be followed optionally by a coda of any consonant except [j]. Thus: (C⊻BŔ)V(C*)
Additionally a syllable with a onset of a glottal stop cannot be preceded by a syllable with a coda consisting of a glottal stop. Thus, (C⊻BŔ)Vʕ.ʕV(C*) is not permitted.
Stress informationStress is not fixed and mostly unpredictable.
OtherNo two syllables with differing vowels of the same height can appear consecutively. So, [i] → [i,ɛ,ʌ], [ɯ] → [ɯ,ʌ,ɛ], [ɛ] → [ɛ,i,ɯ], and [ʌ] → [ʌ,i,ɯ].
Nasal vowel harmony is forward propagating from the root morpheme. So, CVCṼ-CVCV → CVCṼ-CṼCṼ. However, it is blocked by glottal stops [ʔ] and certain suffixes. So, [tivɛ̃-nɛnɯ] → [tivɛ̃-nɛ̃nɯ̃] but [tivɛ̃ʔ-nɛnɯ] would stay the same.
Nasal vowel harmony is forward propagating from the root morpheme. So, CVCṼ-CVCV → CVCṼ-CṼCṼ. However, it is blocked by glottal stops [ʔ] and certain suffixes. So, [tivɛ̃-nɛnɯ] → [tivɛ̃-nɛ̃nɯ̃] but [tivɛ̃ʔ-nɛnɯ] would stay the same.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for A'oonirobi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| A'oonirobiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| i/i/ | m ma /m/ | n nu /n/ | ĩ/ĩ/ | b bi /b/ | d da /d/ | u/ɯ/ | ň/ŋ/ | ũ/ɯ̃/ | ǧ/ɟ/ | g gu /g/ |
| a/ɛ/ | v vi /v/ | ã/ɛ̃/ | ḅ ḅa /ʙ/ | r ra /r/ | o/ʌ/ | q/ʔ/ | j ji /j/ | õ/ʌ̃/ | ṙ ṙa /ʀ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
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