Baamin [BAMI]
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Baamin
Bâmin
BaaminBâmin
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Baamin
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Baamin: yes
Baamin is spoken by around 60 000 persons in 4 remoted valleys in south-west of
Retenia. Like the majority of languages that came from 
Dunari, there are a lot of monosyllabic words at least at nominative case (an in opposition with the languages that came from 
Old Retenian, like 
Standard Retenian or 
Makarian for example).
But the main feature that differentiate this language is the disparition of consonant clusters and also the disparition of the diphtongue that lead to a great diversity of vowels. Baamin is considered as the language with the greatest number of phonemic vowels in Retenia and is very hard to learn the pronounciation for peoples whose mother tongue is Standard Retenian.
There is a phonemic distinction between long/short vowels and also nasal vowels.
Word order is SOV
Adjectives come before nouns
Possessor come before the possessee and the possessive particle comes after the possessee and follow a vocalic harmony rule depending if it's a front or back vowel.
Ex:
Ny i té [ny i tæ] = "God of night"
Today, this language is considered endangered due to small number of speakers even if it's still massively spoken in the Baamin's homeland but the local population diminue due to the migrations of numerous Baamin speakers to the cities and an important number of migrants that decide to remain in cities don't transmit the language to their child.
Even if it has no official statute in the two provinces when it's autochtone, the language has an official statute in the local municipalities and is nowadays protected. It's teached in schools in the municipalities where is spoken. There is also local radios or TV channels in Baamin
Baamin: yes
Baamin is spoken by around 60 000 persons in 4 remoted valleys in south-west of
Retenia. Like the majority of languages that came from Dunari, there are a lot of monosyllabic words at least at nominative case (an in opposition with the languages that came from Old Retenian, like Standard Retenian or Makarian for example). But the main feature that differentiate this language is the disparition of consonant clusters and also the disparition of the diphtongue that lead to a great diversity of vowels. Baamin is considered as the language with the greatest number of phonemic vowels in Retenia and is very hard to learn the pronounciation for peoples whose mother tongue is
Standard Retenian.There is a phonemic distinction between long/short vowels and also nasal vowels.
Word order is SOV
Adjectives come before nouns
Possessor come before the possessee and the possessive particle comes after the possessee and follow a vocalic harmony rule depending if it's a front or back vowel.
Ex:
Ny i té [ny i tæ] = "God of night"
Today, this language is considered endangered due to small number of speakers even if it's still massively spoken in the Baamin's homeland but the local population diminue due to the migrations of numerous Baamin speakers to the cities and an important number of migrants that decide to remain in cities don't transmit the language to their child.
Even if it has no official statute in the two provinces when it's autochtone, the language has an official statute in the local municipalities and is nowadays protected. It's teached in schools in the municipalities where is spoken. There is also local radios or TV channels in Baamin
Sample of BaaminCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeIndo-European
⤷ Proto-Indo-European
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Proto Retenian
⤷ Central plain retenian (many dialects)
⤷ Dunari
⤷ Eastern dunaric
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Baamin
⤷ Proto-Indo-European
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Proto Retenian⤷ Central plain retenian (many dialects)
⤷
Dunari⤷ Eastern dunaric
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Baamin[view] About Indo-EuropeanThis family tree includes only the main branches and the branches that are too small to be shown separately. See separate main branches for further detail.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | k | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ʃ | ʑ | ʁ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y ỹ | ɯ | u: | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | ||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
| Open | a a: | ɒ ɒ: | ||||
