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==Alphabet== | |||
Azarian has the same alphabet as [[Malwinish]], except for letters representing sounds not found in both languages. | |||
{| | |||
| Transliteration || Sound || Notes | |||
|- | |||
| k || k | |||
|- | |||
| o || o | |||
|- | |||
| s || s || Usually a dental sibilant, but the dental and alveolar sibilants are allophones. | |||
|- | |||
| j || ʒ | |||
|- | |||
| z || z | |||
|- | |||
| h || h || Initial ''hi'' is voiceless ''i'', unless followed by a vowel, in which case a diphthong results. | |||
|- | |||
| v || v | |||
|- | |||
| b || b || The letter for ''v'' originally represented ''b'', and that for ''b'' is a modification of it. | |||
|- | |||
| a || a | |||
|- | |||
| g || g | |||
|- | |||
| e || e || Pronounced as either ɛ or ə. | |||
|- | |||
| x || ʃ | |||
|- | |||
| t || t | |||
|- | |||
| i || i | |||
|- | |||
| f || f | |||
|- | |||
| m || m | |||
|- | |||
| p || p | |||
|- | |||
| d || d | |||
|- | |||
| y || j || Diacritic indicating palatalization of s, z, x, and j, and diphthong with o, a, and e. | |||
|- | |||
| n || ◌̃ || Diacritic indicating a nasal vowel. | |||
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Revision as of 21:37, 25 December 2007
Azarian Mejinsyè | |
Spoken in: | Azaria (Mejín) |
Conworld: | Melin |
Total speakers: | ? |
Genealogical classification: | Borogoni
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Basic word order: | SVO |
Morphological type: | inflecting |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
Writing system: | |
Created by: | |
Pierre Abbat | late 1970s |
Phonetics
Vowels | ||||||||||
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Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
High | i ĩ | |||||||||
High-mid | o õ | |||||||||
Mid | (ə) (ə̃) | |||||||||
Low-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | (œ) (œ̃) | ||||||||
Low | a ã |
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s̪ | z̪ | sʲ | zʲ | ʃ ʃʲ | ʒ ʒʲ | h |
Alphabet
Azarian has the same alphabet as Malwinish, except for letters representing sounds not found in both languages.
Transliteration | Sound | Notes |
k | k | |
o | o | |
s | s | Usually a dental sibilant, but the dental and alveolar sibilants are allophones. |
j | ʒ | |
z | z | |
h | h | Initial hi is voiceless i, unless followed by a vowel, in which case a diphthong results. |
v | v | |
b | b | The letter for v originally represented b, and that for b is a modification of it. |
a | a | |
g | g | |
e | e | Pronounced as either ɛ or ə. |
x | ʃ | |
t | t | |
i | i | |
f | f | |
m | m | |
p | p | |
d | d | |
y | j | Diacritic indicating palatalization of s, z, x, and j, and diphthong with o, a, and e. |
n | ◌̃ | Diacritic indicating a nasal vowel. |