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Ossmalic

Ossmalic Оссмалэст
Pronounced:	[os.ˈsma.ləst̪]
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/
Stop	voiceless	п /p/	т /t̪/	ть /t̪ʲ/		к /k/	кь /kʲ/
	voiced	б /b/	д /d̪/	дь /d̪ʲ/		г /g/	гь /gʲ/
Fricative		в /ʋ/	с /s/	сь /sʲ/		х /x/	хь /xʲ/
Approximant			л /l/	ль /lʲ/	і /j/

Vowel Phonemes

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

Animate:

сьольа "river" [sg], сьолье "rivers" [pl]

хвала "horse" [sg], хвале "horses" [pl]

тьху "human" [sg], тьхоі "people" [pl]

Inanimate:

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

гевт "valley" [sg], гевть "valleys" [pl]

Adjective prefixes

Colours

маг- "black"

ос- "white"