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Ossmalic

Ossmalic Оссмалнулв
Pronounced:	[os.smal.ˈnulʋ]
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

Consonant phonemes of Ossmalic

		Labial	Coronal		Palatal	Velar
			hard	soft		hard	soft
Nasal		м /m/	н /n̪/	нь /n̪ʲ/[ɲ]
Stop	voiceless	п /p/	т /t̪/	ть /t̪ʲ/[t͡ʃ]		к /k/	кь /kʲ/[t͡ʃ]
	voiced	б /b/	д /d̪/	дь /d̪ʲ/[d͡ʒ]		г /g/	гь /gʲ/[d͡ʒ]
Fricative		в /ʋ/	с /s/	сь /sʲ/[ʃ]		х /x/	хь /xʲ/[ʃ]
Approximant			л /l/	ль /lʲ/[ʎ]	і /j/
Click	voiceless		қ /ᵏǀ/	қь /ᵏǀʲ/[ᵏǂ]
	voiced		ӷ /ᶢǀ/	ӷь /ᶢǀʲ/[ᶢǂ]
	nasal		ң /ᵑǀ/	ңь /ᵑǀʲ/[ᵑǂ]

Vowel Phonemes

Type	Front	Back
Close	и /i/	у /u/
Mid	е /e/	о /o/
Open	а /a/

Singular:

смал "mountain" [inanimate]

нулв "language" [inanimate]

сьолла "river" [animate]

тьху "human, person" [animate]

Plural:

смаль "mountains" [inanimate]

нуль "languages" [inanimate]

сьолле "rivers" [animate]

тьхоі "humans, people" [animate]