Samnuy [USY]
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Samnuy
SamnuyRegistered by
[Deactivated User] on 25 May 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Samnuy
Hey welcome to Samnuy! Here are a few interesting things:
- Analytical Grammar: no declension on nouns at all, tense clitics on verbs and number on pronouns are the only inflection
- Reduplication intensifies adjectives and adverbs
- All NPs begin with a determiner, even proper nouns
- Proper nouns have their own determiner <in>
- Inalienable nouns have a generic possession marker -'a/-'ha derived from <hana> "something"
- Locative and temporal phrases are moved to the front of the sentence
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n̪ | ɲ1 | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ pʰ pʰʲ | t̪ t̪ʰ | k kʲ kʰ kʰʲ | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ɕ2 | ç | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ3 t͡ɕʰ4 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ5 | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||
- When palatalized
- When palatalized
- When palatalized
- When palatalized
- When palatalized
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Samnuy. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SamnuyOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a Aa a /a/ | b Bb /p/ | d Dd /t̪/ | e Ee E /e̞/ | g Gg /k/ | h Hh Has /h/ | i Ii I /i/ | dx Jj /t͡ɕ/1 | k Kk Ko /kʰ/ | l Ll /l/ | m Mm May /m/ |
| n Nn Nay /n̪/ | v NG ng Rang /ŋ/ | o Oo O /o̞/ | p Pp Po /pʰ/ | r Rr Rum /ɾ/ | s Ss Sas /s/ | q Tt To /t̪ʰ/, /ʔ/ | u Uu U /u/ | u Ww Owa /w/ | i Yy Ey /j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- When palatalized
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