Yimalese [HIM]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Yimalese
An agglutinative a priori language with vowel harmony, some inspiration from some languages.
Sound samples in Yimalese
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Himêm mašša himala.
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Language family relationships
Language treeYimalic languages
⤷ Yimalese
⤷ Yimalese
[view] About Yimalic languagesThe descendants of the Yimalese language (and Yimalese itself).
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | (ʔ) | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | [v]1 | s | ʃ | x | [ɣ]2 | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | ɹ | (j) | (w) | ɰ | |||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /ʋ/
- allophone of /ɰ/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
Mid | e̞ e̞: | o̞ o̞: | ||||
Near-open | ɐ ɐ: |
Polyphthongs | [e̞ɐ] | [o̞ɐ] | [uɐ] | [iɐ] |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yimalese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
YimaleseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
'/ʔ/1 | Aa/ɐ/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
Ññ/ɲ/2 | Ňň/ŋ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Ŕŕ/ɹ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Řř/r/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ |
Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Ŵŵ/w/3 | Ww/ɰ/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/4 | Łł/ɬ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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