Kalo

Phonology

Consonants

Stops

• t - /t/ >> /tʰ/
• k - /k/ >> /kʰ/
• kw - /kʷ/

Nasals

In anyomo each nasal consonant has a geminate counterpart, and gemination is lexically contrastive.

• m - /m/ >> /mː/
• n - /n/ >> /nː/
• ny - /ɲ/ >> /ɲː/

Approximants

• h - /ɦ/
• w - /w/
• y - /j/

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	e	o
Open	a

There are only three phonemic vowels: /a e o/. They can be long or short and be one of three tones. Length can be lexical, but tone is strictly phonemic.

• aàáeèéoòó

Tones

There are three phonemic tones, traditionally described as mid, high, and low; in transcription the mid tone is unmarked, and the high and low tones are indicated with acute and grave accents respectively.

Morphosyntax

anyomo is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

Pronouns

Subject	Marking	xx	Examples
1sg	o- - I		oha - I walk
2sg	ko- - you		konyome - you spoke
3sg	∅ - he/she/it		na - he/she/it knows
1pl	wà - we
2pl	kwà - you [pl]
3pl	yà - they

Aspect

There are 3 aspects: imperfect, perfect, and continual

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_grammar#Aspects

Lexicon

stems

• nyom - speak; talk; converse; chat; discuss
• h - walk; go (away); run; move (of vehicle); visit; leave