Old Almaikiri [ALK]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Almaikiri
Almaikiri, in-world, was created as a war-language to communicate between three distinct languages and several dialects. It is supposed to be relatively simple and avoid ambiguity wherever possible. Evidentiality is important to the speakers (with epistemology separate and less obligatory).
Sample of Old Almaikiri[view] "Pomen kokukii̊ poârom me." / "Menâ; montâ."
"I can't do it without you." / "You can; you must."[view all texts]
"I can't do it without you." / "You can; you must."[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeCaolt
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Old Almaikiri[view] About CaoltRelationships of languages in my conworld.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [θ]1 | ð | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]2 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | wo | st | wi | wu | wa | we |
- allophone of /ð/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||
| Close-mid | [e]2 | o | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | yi | yo | ye | yu | eɪ | ya |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /eɪ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Almaikiri. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old AlmaikiriOrthography | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/eɪ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Ňň/ŋ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/, [ɹ] | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Zz/z/ | Þþ/ð/ | Ƨƨ/st/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
