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Ossmalic

Ossmalic Оссмал
Pronounced:	[òs.ˈsmǎl]
Spoken:	Ossmal
Writing system:	Sealbone Script
Genealogy:	Language isolate
Typology
Morphological type:	???
Morphosyntactic alignment:	ergative-absolutive
Basic word order:	VSO
Credits
Creator:	Malcolm G. Holborne

28 consonants:

Consonant phonemes of Ossmalic

		Labial	Coronal		Palatal	Velar
			hard	soft		hard	soft
Nasal		м /m/	н /n̪/	нь /n̪ʲ/		ӈ /ŋ/	ӈь /ŋʲ/
Stop	voiceless	п /p/	т /t̪/	ть /t̪ʲ/		к /k/	кь /kʲ/
	aspirated	пс /pʰ/	тс /t̪ʰ/	тсь /t̪ʲʰ/		кс /kʰ/	ксь /kʲʰ/
	voiced	пб /b/	тд /d̪/	тдь /d̪ʲ/		кг /g/	кгь /gʲ/
Fricative		в /ʋ/	с /s/	сь /sʲ/	і /j/	х /x/	хь /xʲ/
Approximant			л /l/	ль /lʲ/

Monophthongs

Type	Front	Central	Back
Close	и /i/	ы /ɨ/	у /u/
Mid	е /e/	э /ə/	о /o/
Open	а /a/

Diphthongs

Type	Front	Back
Mid Falling	іе /i̯e/	во /u̯o/
Open Falling	іэ /i̯a/	вэ /u̯a/

Animate:

маддсьаі "human" [sg], ??? "people" [pl]

сьолаі "river" [sg], ??? "rivers" [pl]

хвалаі "horse" [sg], ??? "horses" [pl]

ксьвэнаі "god" [sg], ??? "gods" [pl]

Inanimate:

смал "mountain" [sg], смаль "mountains" [pl]

сьол "lake" [sg], сьоль "lakes" [pl]

дуд "house" [sg], дудь "houses" [pl]

ксьвэндуд "temple" [sg], ксьвэндудь "temples" [pl]

мэӈ "language" [sg], мэӈь "languages" [pl]

Adjective prefixes

Colours

маг- "black, dark"

ос- "white, light"

тьил- "immoral, wicked, evil"