Amay [AMAY]
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[Deactivated User] on 21 December 2019
Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About Amay
This is a language I made for world-building for a book I’m writing. It’s inspired by a multitude of natural languages, but also has some “indigenous” features.
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | (q) | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | (v) | s | z | ʃ | ɣ | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | (d͡ʒ) | (ʈ͡ʂ) | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Amay. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AmayOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa alef /a/ | Bb baa /b/ | CH ch chaa /ʈ͡ʂ/1 | Dd dal /d/ | DCH dch jim /t͡ʃ/ | DS ds zain /z/ | DSCH dsch zhaa /d͡ʒ/2 | Ee e /e/ | Ff faa /f/ | Gg gaa /g/ |
| GH gh ghain /ɣ/ | Hh haa /h/ | Ii i /i/ | Kk kaaf /k/ | Ll laam /l/ | Mm mim /m/ | Nn nun /n/ | NG ng ngaa /ŋ/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp paa /p/ |
| Rr raa /r/ | Ss sin /s/ | SH sh shin /ʃ/ | Tt taa /t/ | Uu u /ɯ/ | Vv vaa /v/3 | Ww wau /w/ | Yy yaa /j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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