Artahšatrānu džaŋgmu
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Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Labiodental | Dental ~ Alveolar | Palatalized dental ~ Alveolar | Postalveolars | Palatal | Velar | |
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Nasals | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Plosive | p pʰ b | t tʰ d | k kʰ g | ||||
Affricates | t͡s t͡sʰ d͡z | t͡sʲ t͡sʲʰ d͡zʲ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ d͡ʒ | ||||
Fricatives | s z | sʲ zʲ | ʃ ʒ | x ɣ | |||
Trills | r | rʲ | |||||
Lateral approximants | l | lʲ | |||||
Approximants | ʋ | j |
Spelling
/p t tʲ k/ [p t tj k]
/pʰ tʰ tʲʰ kʰ/ [ph th thj kh]
/b d dʲ g/ [b d dj g]
/t͡s t͡sʲ t͡ʃ/ [c cj č]
/t͡sʰ t͡sʲʰ t͡ʃʰ/ [ch chj čh]
/d͡z d͡zʲ d͡ʒ/ [dz dzj dž]
/s sʲ ʃ x/ [s sj š h]
/z zʲ ʒ ɣ/ [z zj ž x]
/m n nʲ ŋ/ [m n nj ŋ]
/r rʲ l lʲ/ [r rj l lj]
/ʋ j/ [v j]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | ||||
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Short | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | |
Close | iː yː | uː | ||||
Near close | ɪ ʏ | ʊ | ||||
Close-Mid | eː | oː | ||||
Open-Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
Open | ä | äː |
Spelling
/ɪ ʏ ʊ/ [i y u]
/ɛ ɔ/ [e o]
/ä/ [á]
/iː yː uː/ [ī ȳ ū]
/eː oː/ [ē ō]
/ɑː/ [ā]
Phonotactics
(C)(C)V(ː)(R)(C)
Accent
- penultimate primary acute accent
- ultimate secondary gravis accent
Grammar
Nouns
Gender and number
Singular | Plural | ||||||
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Animate | Masculine | -a | mana | man | -ē | manē | men |
Feminine | -i | kōni | woman | -in | kōnī | women | |
Inanimate | -u | hakmu | stone | -ȳ | hakmȳ | stones |
Declension
Nominative | - | subject of intransitive clause and agent of transitive clause | ||
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Genitive | -s | manas | of man | possessor, patient of transitive clause, theme of ditransitive clause |
Instrumental | -mi | manami | with man | instrument, accompaniament, method, recipient of ditransitive clause |
Vialis | -ko | manako | through man | way in space or time |
Ablative | -de | manade | from man | direction from smth |
Allative | -ri | manari | to man | direction towards smth |
Locative | -thu | manathu | (in/on/under) man | various locations (with prepositions) |
Benefactive | -la | manala | for man | destination to smth, purpose |
Definiteness
Indefinite | um | um mana | a man | |
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Definite | Proper | is | is mana | the man |
Distant | at | at mana | that man |