Pu u Lamu [UJU]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pu u Lamu
Pu u Lamu is the lingua franca of the main Tujuan islands and is one the official languages of the country alongside Uňev Lãa.
It is often associated with government, law, and the military in Tuju. It is part of the Tujuan language family, a branch of the Sanju-Jutean language family and thus is distantly related to Jutean.
It is written using a syllabary, pictured here: (outdated)
Grammatical features
- Topic-prominent
- Nouns are inflected for 3 cases (agentive, patientive and oblique) and for definitiveness
- 2 grammatical genders (animate and inanimate)
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd person pronouns with singular and plural forms
- Inclusive and exlusive "we"
- Several grammatical functions are marked using particles
- Counters
- Vowel harmony
It is often associated with government, law, and the military in Tuju. It is part of the Tujuan language family, a branch of the Sanju-Jutean language family and thus is distantly related to Jutean.
It is written using a syllabary, pictured here: (outdated)
Grammatical features
- Topic-prominent
- Nouns are inflected for 3 cases (agentive, patientive and oblique) and for definitiveness
- 2 grammatical genders (animate and inanimate)
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd person pronouns with singular and plural forms
- Inclusive and exlusive "we"
- Several grammatical functions are marked using particles
- Counters
- Vowel harmony
Language family relationships
Language treeTujuan
⤷ Proto-Tujuan
⤷ North Tujuan
⤷ Pu u Lamu
⤷ Proto-Tujuan
⤷ North Tujuan
⤷ Pu u Lamu
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ȵ]1 | [ŋ]2 | [ɴ]3 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]4 | t | [d]5 | k | [g]6 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | [ɸ]7 | [β]8 | s | [z]9 | ɕ | [ʑ]10 | [ç]11 | [ʝ]12 | χ | [ʁ]13 | h | [ɦ]14 | ||||||
Affricate | t͡ɕ | [d͡ʑ]15 | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ȴ]16 | ||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | [ɥ]17 | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ɕ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /χ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /w/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | y | u | |||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʏ]2 | [ʊ]3 | |||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | [œ]5 | [ɔ]6 | |||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | əj | ɪj | äj | ʏɥ | äw | ʊj | ʌw | ʊw | [œj]7 | ʏj |
æɥ | æj |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /y/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /y/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ʏj/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pu u Lamu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Pu u LamuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Cc/t͡ɕ/, [d͡ʑ] | Ee/æ/ | Hh/h/, [ç], [ɦ], [ʝ], [ɸ], [β] | Ii/i/, [ɛ], [ɪ] | Kk/k/, [g] | Ll/l/, [ȴ] | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɴ], [ŋ], [m], [ȵ] | Oo/ə/ |
Pp/p/, [b] | Qq/χ/, [ʁ] | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/, [z] | Šš/ɕ/, [ʑ] | Tt/t/, [d] | Uu/u/, [ɔ], [ʊ] | Üü/y/, [ʏ], [œ] | Ww/w/, [ɥ] | Yy/j/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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