Armavi

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Armavi
Pronounced: armavi
Timeline and Universe: completely different
Species: human
Spoken: Parizhia, Parsos, Avustrea, Iniwicia, Armaja, Ispirtia, North Ipriqia, Armavi colonies
Total speakers: 90 million native, 125 million total
Writing system: Armavi
Genealogy: Ayartaic

 Eryanan
  Parizhian

   Armavi
Typology
Morphological type: Agglutinaitve
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: Nadeem Ahmad
Created: May 2006

Armavi is a conlang originally designed as an auxlang for Turkish, hence it shares very many properties with Turkish. Over time, Armavi grew into a fully fledged conlang with its own conworld and conculture


Distribution

Armavi has a total of 90 million native speakers and 35 million speakers who learned the language.


Phonology

Vowels

Armavi contains the following vowels:

Armavi vowels with Example Words
Vowel sound Example
IPA Description Transliteration English translation
monophthongs
i Close front unrounded vowel dil 'tongue', 'language'
y Close front rounded vowel günbet 'dome'
ɯ Close back unrounded vowel ımrtasa 'infantry'
ɛ Close-mid front unrounded vowel del 'heart'
œ Open-mid front rounded vowel sönmeğ 'to play the fiddle / violin'
a Open front unrounded vowel halet 'health'
o Close-mid back rounded vowel misos 'hate'
u Close back rounded vowel uğatar 'large drum'


As well as this, there are some diphthongs: ei is pronounced /i/, and harmonises like i ai is pronounced /e/, and harmonises like e As well as this, any unrounded vowel followed by u, the u is pronounced /ɸ/ before unvoiced consonants, and /β/ everywhere else

In any other cases where two vowels are next to each other (which is very rare), they are pronounced individually.

Consonants

Armavi also contains the following consonants (transliteration as well as IPA is given):