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| łaá siri (ASCII transcription '''lhaa: siri''') is an minimalist artlang created by Zach Wellstood for personal use. Interesting characteristics include deictic verbal conjugation for the subject and object, a phonological inventory of 10 (or 13, depending on your view, or maybe more depending on other views) phonemes, and a 4-way system of animacy.
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| == Phonetics & Phonology ==
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| === Consonants ===
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| !Alveolar || Palatal || Glottal
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Plosive || || || ' [ʔ]
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Fricative || s [s]
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Lateral Fric. || ł [ɬ]
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Lateral Aff. || tł [tɬ]
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Approx. || r [ɹ] - l [l] || y [j]
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| '''A note of transcription: ''' Typically, the symbols used above will be used by default. If a system doesn't support unicode, or you're in a rush, it's okay to transcribe <ł> as <lh> and <tł> as <tlh>.
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| === Vowels ===
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| !Front || Back
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Close || i [i] ii [iː] u [y] uu [yː]{{ref|ref_1|1}} ||
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| | style="width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;" | Open || || a [ɑ] aa [ɑː]
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| {{note|ref_1|1}} This phoneme may be realized as [u] or [uː].
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| ==== Vowel Qualities: Glottal Reinforcement ====
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| The presence of a coda with [ʔ] is referred to as "glottal reinforcement." All vowels can be reinforced with a glottal stop at the end. This will be transcribed <a'>, <aa'>, etc. All vowels/chronemes can take on this quality, but rhotic vowels cannot. If two glottal stops approach each other at syllable boundaries, they assimilate into a single phoneme.
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| ==== Vowel Qualities: Rhotacization ====
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| ==== Vowel Qualities: Length ====
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| === Syllable Structure ===
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| === Pitch-Accent System ===
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| === Sound Change & Allophony ===
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| == Morphology ==
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| === Nominal Morphology ===
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| ==== Animacy ====
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| ==== Pronouns ====
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| === Verbal Morphology ===
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| ==== Proximity of Subject ====
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| ==== Proximity of Object ====
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| ==== Evidentiality ====
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| ==== Negation ====
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| ==== Aspect ====
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| === Descriptive Morphology ===
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| == Syntax ==
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| === Possession ===
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| === Simple Questions ===
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| === Wh- Questions ===
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| == Colloquialisms ==
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| Because colloquialisms between languages are rarely mutually intelligible and often rooted in culture, the closest English equivalent to the succeeding phrases has been provided as well. This is often not a direct translation, but something that carries a similar connotation ''in English''.
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| == Literary łaá siri ==
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| Most prevalent in łaá siri are numerous constructions and names of constructions used in poetry. Because of the minimal phonetic inventory of vowels, rhyme is very common, but beyond acoustic properties of poetry are many metaphorical constructions.
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| == Counting ==
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| łaá siri uses a base-5 (quinary) number system.
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| == Translations and Samples ==
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