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'

Consonants

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