Ame language [AMX]
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Registered by
藤咲瑠奈 on 10 October 2015
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ame language
The Ame language is an indigenous language of the Nousa Kingdom, spoken by the Ame people, written in a logographic writing system called the Ame script.
The Ame language has a specific avoidance speech used in special occasions. This is due to supersitions that using the regular language in certain occasions will bring back luck.
Grammatical features of the Ame language:
- SVO basic word order
- prepositions and initial conjunctions
- adjectives, demonstratives, numerals prcede the noun they modify
- morphologically analytic
- neutral alignment
- no distinction in cases, gender, etc.
- definite and indefinite articles
- adjectives being verb-like
The Ame language has a specific avoidance speech used in special occasions. This is due to supersitions that using the regular language in certain occasions will bring back luck.
Grammatical features of the Ame language:
- SVO basic word order
- prepositions and initial conjunctions
- adjectives, demonstratives, numerals prcede the noun they modify
- morphologically analytic
- neutral alignment
- no distinction in cases, gender, etc.
- definite and indefinite articles
- adjectives being verb-like
Sample of Ame language[view] me ne yachi da hareza, hitaa eikai saachii na te ano me kateri
I don't know why, but something about you makes me angry.[view all texts]
I don't know why, but something about you makes me angry.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] Haatai Teisa (Haatai speech)The Ame language has a specific register called the Haatai speech, or called Haatai Teisa natively, the Haatai speech is an avoidance speech used in certain occasions where the use of the regular speech is a taboo.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | (p) | b | t | d | k | |||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | [β]2 | s | z | [ɕ]3 | [ʑ]4 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡s]5 | [d͡z]6 | [t͡ɕ]7 | [d͡ʑ]8 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]9 | j | w | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | [u]1 [u:]2 | ||||
| Mid | e̞ e̞: | o̞ o̞: | ||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||
- allophone of /o̞/
- allophone of /o̞:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ame language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Ame languageOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | AA aa/ä:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch[t͡ɕ] | Dd/d/ | DJ dj[d͡ʑ] | DZ dz[d͡z] | Ee/e̞/ | EI ei/e̞:/ | Ff[ɸ] | Gg/ŋ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj[ʑ] | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | OU ou/o̞:/ | Pp/p/1 | Rr/ɺ/ |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh[ɕ] | Tt/t/ | TS ts[t͡s] | Uu[u] | UU uu[u:] | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
- loan words only
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