Ziyimo [ZYM]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ziyimo
A mostly CV language with syntactic-only ergativity and weirdly-behaving adjectives.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʰ]2 | b | t [tʰ]3 | [d]4 | [c]5 [cʰ]6 | [ɟ]7 | k [kʰ]8 | g | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | [β]9 | s | [z]10 | ʃ | [ʒ]11 | h | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]12 | [w]13 | [ɥ]14 | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ɲ/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /ɸ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /u/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i í ì | u ú ù | ||
| Open-mid | ɔ ɔ́ ɔ̀ | |||
| Open | a á à | |||
| Polyphthongs | au1 | ai2 | ɔa3 | æɔ4 | ɔi5 |
- Falling [áʉ̀], rising [ə̀ú]
- Falling [áɨ̀], rising [ə̀í]
- Falling [óə̀], rising [ɔ̀á]
- Falling [ǽɒ̀], rising [æ̀ó]
- Falling [óɨ̀], rising [ɔ̀í]
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ziyimo. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ZiyimoOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/á/ | Àà/à/ | Bb/b/ | Ff/ɸ/, [β] | Gg/g/, [ɟ] | Hh/h/ | Ìì/ì/ | Íí/í/ |
| Ii/i/, [j] | Kk/k/, [kʰ], [c] | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Óó/ɔ́/ | Òò/ɔ̀/ | Pp/p/, [pʰ] |
| Qq/ʔ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/, [z] | Tt/t/, [tʰ], [d] | Uu/u/, [ɥ], [w] | Ùù/ù/ | Úú/ú/ | Zz/ʃ/, [ʒ] | Ɲɲ/ɲ/, [ŋ] |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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Ziyimo Grammar
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