Ýýlheema'ék
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| Language | |
| Spoken in: | variable |
| Timeline/Universe: | An ancient language created on earth, but known on at least 2 planets. |
| Total speakers: | 5 known |
| Genealogical classification: | Isolate |
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Morphological type: | Synthetic |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | |
| Created by: | |
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Phonology
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | ɢ | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | v | θ | ð | s | χ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral Fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Tap or Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-high | ɪ | |||||||||
| High-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
The following vowels also have phonemic length: a, e, i, o
There are two tones: high--marked with acute accent in the orthography; low--unmarked.
Sentence Structure
- verb is always last in the clause
- focus comes first
- adjectives follow nouns
- adverbs follow what they modify
- adpositions follow their noun/phrase
- relative clauses follow head clauses
- relationals come before the noun/phrase they refer to
Nouns
- There are no cases. Syntactic function is determined by position in the clause (see Sentence Structure).
