Nother/Rami: Difference between revisions

From FrathWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary
Line 50: Line 50:


</div>
</div>
===Accent===
Rami is a mora-timed language.
Each vowel mora has either high pitch or low pitch.  The pitch accent is chiefly lexical, roots generally and affixes often having their own pitch or pitch contour, but many affixes are pitchless on their own.  The rules by which a vowel without its own lexical pitch is associated with high or low pitch have not yet been described.

Revision as of 15:42, 16 August 2010


Rami
Pronounced: /ɾɑ̀mí/
Timeline and Universe: Nother
Species: rami
/ɾɑ̀mjó/
Spoken: passim
Total speakers: [no data]
Writing system: Rami alphabet
Genealogy: innate languages
 Rami
Typology
Morphological type: Fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: [no data]
Basic word order: [no data]
Credits
Creator: Muke Tever |
Created: at latest 2000

Rami (also known as Ramyo or Daimyo) is a language of Nother.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
Bilabial Labiod. Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɳ̊ ɳ ɲ̊ ɲ ŋ̊ ŋ
Plosive p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k g ʔ
Fricative ɸ β v θ ð s ʃ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ h
Lateral Fricative ɮ
Lateral Approximant l ɫ
Approximants w ɻʷ j
Tap ɾ
Trill r

Vowels

Vowels
Front      Back
High i u
High-mid ø ɤ̃ o
Low-mid ɛ
Near-low æ
Low ɑ

Accent

Rami is a mora-timed language.

Each vowel mora has either high pitch or low pitch. The pitch accent is chiefly lexical, roots generally and affixes often having their own pitch or pitch contour, but many affixes are pitchless on their own. The rules by which a vowel without its own lexical pitch is associated with high or low pitch have not yet been described.