Ramua [ADHD]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ramua
Mainland Lahiri language spoken as a linguistic island southeast of the Puzimmese mountains. An official language of 
West Puzimmese Republic
It took you 3 weeks from the making of this conlang to its phonology getting overengineered, new personal record, tet?
oh ye I guess this has a few noun classes, and stress that I swear makes sense. Originally finnic-inspired, believe it or not.
West Puzimmese RepublicIt took you 3 weeks from the making of this conlang to its phonology getting overengineered, new personal record, tet?
oh ye I guess this has a few noun classes, and stress that I swear makes sense. Originally finnic-inspired, believe it or not.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p1 | b | t | d | k2 | ʔ | ||||||
| Fricative | f3 | s4 | x5 | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
- /p/ and /t/ are aspirated in onset
- always tenuis, does not partake in voicing assimilation
- an approximant [ʋ̥] phonetically when not geminated. Voiceless counterpart to /w/
- doesn't trigger voicing assimilation, but is affected: becomes [z] before voiced consonants
- uvular, voiceless counterpart to /r/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ:1 | ɔ:2 | ||
| Open | a a: | |||
| Polyphthongs | au3 | ai4 |
- shortens preceding a coda, dipthongises to [iɛ] word-finally
- shortens preceding a coda, dipthongises to [uɔ] word-finally
- monophthongises to [o] before a coda
- monophthongises to [e] before a coda
Syllable Structure(C)V(C) word-medially, (C)V(n) word finally, with no hiatuses allowed. Consonants agreeing with the following onset's voice and equally or more sonorous than it are allowed in word-medial codas. Word-final /Vn/ is realised as [V:̃]. Some other alveolars /l d s/ can phonetically appear word-finally, forming a degenerate foot that does not count in stress placement or the preceding syllable's mora count, and can optionally be followed by an [a].
Trimoraic syllables are illegal, /a: ai au ɛ: ɔ:/ thus shorten to [a e o ɛ ɔ] in the presence of a coda. Therefore including word-final coda /n/, but excluding "word-final coda" /l r d s/.
Trimoraic syllables are illegal, /a: ai au ɛ: ɔ:/ thus shorten to [a e o ɛ ɔ] in the presence of a coda. Therefore including word-final coda /n/, but excluding "word-final coda" /l r d s/.
Stress informationWord root-final high tone. In the case of degenerate feet, which never get accented, tonal minimal pairs between ultimate and penultimate accent may occur between roots ending with /l r d s/ [-la -ra -ta -sa], with the vowel before them getting high tone, and original /la ra da sa/, which do get word-finally accented [-lá -rá -dá -sá].
One foot regularly consists of a maximum of two syllables; one accented syllable, preceded by an unstressed syllable, if such a preceding syllable exists.
Depending on the number of syllables in the root, accented (H) and unaccented (L) syllables have this distribution: 1: H 2: LH 3: H-LH 4: LH-LH 5: H-LH-LH, et cetera.
The addition of monosyllabic prefixes however, significantly alter this system. As prefixes cannot stand on their own as a monosyllabic foot, they become part of the following foot, even when it had two syllables to begin with. The accented syllable in a trisyllabic foot shifts from ultimate to penultimate in the process. As an example, /saikˈka/ [sek:á] "estuary", results in /sɔ:ˈsaik.ka/ [sɔ:sék:a] when the diminuitive /sɔ:/ is prefixed. Prefixing another syllable, for instance /wu/, a possessive prefix, allows the prefixes to form their own foot, reversing this change: /wuˌsɔ́:-saikˈka/ [wusɔ́:sek:á]
One foot regularly consists of a maximum of two syllables; one accented syllable, preceded by an unstressed syllable, if such a preceding syllable exists.
Depending on the number of syllables in the root, accented (H) and unaccented (L) syllables have this distribution: 1: H 2: LH 3: H-LH 4: LH-LH 5: H-LH-LH, et cetera.
The addition of monosyllabic prefixes however, significantly alter this system. As prefixes cannot stand on their own as a monosyllabic foot, they become part of the following foot, even when it had two syllables to begin with. The accented syllable in a trisyllabic foot shifts from ultimate to penultimate in the process. As an example, /saikˈka/ [sek:á] "estuary", results in /sɔ:ˈsaik.ka/ [sɔ:sék:a] when the diminuitive /sɔ:/ is prefixed. Prefixing another syllable, for instance /wu/, a possessive prefix, allows the prefixes to form their own foot, reversing this change: /wuˌsɔ́:-saikˈka/ [wusɔ́:sek:á]
Otherthere is cluster voicing assimilation, where a onset /p t f x ɬ/ devoice preceding /b d w l r/ to [p t f ɬ x/, and onset /b d w l m n/ voice preceding /p t f s ɬ/ to [b d w z l].
/m n x/ are therefore triggers but not targets, /s/ is a target but not a trigger, and /k/ is completely neutral.
/m n x/ are therefore triggers but not targets, /s/ is a target but not a trigger, and /k/ is completely neutral.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ramua. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RamuaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ff/f/1 | Gg/x/2 | Hh/ʔ/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/3 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/4 |
| Rr/r/ | Ss/s/5 | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/w/ | Zz/ɬ/ | AA aa/a:/ | AI ai/ai/6 | AU au/au/7 | UA ua/ɔ:/8 | IA ia/ɛ:/9 | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
- an approximant [ʋ̥] phonetically when not geminated. Voiceless counterpart to /w/
- uvular, voiceless counterpart to /r/
- always tenuis, does not partake in voicing assimilation
- /p/ and /t/ are aspirated in onset
- doesn't trigger voicing assimilation, but is affected: becomes [z] before voiced consonants
- monophthongises to [e] before a coda
- monophthongises to [o] before a coda
- shortens preceding a coda, dipthongises to [uɔ] word-finally
- shortens preceding a coda, dipthongises to [iɛ] word-finally
