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Ossmalic
Ossmalic Оссэма́л | |
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Pronounced: | [òs.ˈsmál] |
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 |
28 consonants:
Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | ||||
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hard | soft | hard | soft | ||||
Nasal | м /m/ | н /n̪/ | нь /n̪ʲ/ | ӈ /ŋ/ | ӈь /ŋʲ/ | ||
Stop | voiceless | п /p/ | т /t̪/ | ть /t̪ʲ/ | к /k/ | кь /kʲ/ | |
aspirated | пх /pʰ/ | тх /t̪ʰ/ | тхь /t̪ʲʰ/ | кх /kʰ/ | кхь /kʲʰ/ | ||
voiced | мп /b/ | нт /d̪/ | нть /d̪ʲ/ | ӈк /g/ | ӈкь /gʲ/ | ||
Fricative | в /ʋ/ | с /s/ | сь /sʲ/ | і /j/ | х /x/ | хь /xʲ/ | |
Approximant | л /l/ | ль /lʲ/ |
Type | Front | Central | Back |
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Close | и /i/ | э /ə~ɨ/ | у /u/ |
Mid | е /e/ | о /o/ | |
Open | а /a/ |
Type | Front | Back |
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Mid Falling | іе /i̯e/ | во /u̯o/ |
Open Falling | іа /i̯a/ | ва /u̯a/ |
Tone is not explicitly marked in writing but inferred based on historical voicing distinctions and consonant clusters:
Consonant | High | Low | |
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Stop | Plain | па /pá/ | ба /pà/ |
та /t̪á/ | да /t̪à/ | ||
ка /ká/ | га /kà/ | ||
Aspirated | пха /pʰá/ | бха /pʰà/ | |
тха /t̪ʰá/ | дха /t̪ʰà/ | ||
кха /kʰá/ | гха /kʰà/ | ||
Voiced | мпа /bá/ | мба /bà/ | |
нта /d̪á/ | нда /d̪à/ | ||
ӈка /gá/ | ӈга /gà/ | ||
Fricative | са /sá/ | за /sà/ | |
ха /xá/ | һа /xà/ | ||
Sonorant | мха /má/ | ма /mà/ | |
нха /n̪á/ | на /n̪à/ | ||
ӈха /ŋá/ | ӈа /ŋà/ | ||
лха /lá/ | ла /là/ |
Animate:
- ма́дсьаі "human" [sg], ??? "people" [pl]
- сьо́лаі "river" [sg], ??? "rivers" [pl]
- хва́лаі "horse" [sg], ??? "horses" [pl]
- кхьва́наі "god" [sg], ??? "gods" [pl]
- дэ́лхаі ??? [sg]
Inanimate:
- сэма́л "mountain" [sg], сэма́ль "mountains" [pl]
- сьол "lake" [sg], сьоль "lakes" [pl]
- дуд "house" [sg], дудь "houses" [pl]
- мэӈ "language" [sg], мэӈь "languages" [pl]
Adjective prefixes
Colours
- маг- "black, dark"
- ос- "white, light"
- тьил- "immoral, wicked, evil"