Old il Mir [IMR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old il Mir
Old il Mir is a language that developed in the Abari rift valley and is spoken by the horned people who live there.
Sample of Old il Mir[view] neralô pàmild npíl nemirû nen mfonnû fotne zel
It is silent when he who knows about the world speaks.[view all texts]
It is silent when he who knows about the world speaks.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Old il Mir
Some sound samples of Old il Mir. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Su paramof.
You're pretty good.
You're pretty good.
fusta nnìl nenirû tzόlt agontur
Good medicine tastes bitter
Good medicine tastes bitter
là nilû areng níl
I am fishing fish today
I am fishing fish today
Language family relationships
[view] degtmob (Portmouth)This dialect emerged in the southern port cities of the Abari rift valley.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | [n]1 | ɳ | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | d̪ | [t]2 | [d]3 | ɖ | g | ʔ | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [ð]4 | [s]5 | z | ʐ | ɣ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]6 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]7 | |||||||||||||||
- In consonant clusters, allophone of /n̪/
- When clustered with “p” or “f”, allophone of /d̪/
- When clustered with voiced consonants, allophone of /d̪/
- When framed by vowels on either side, allophone of /d̪/
- When clustered with “p” or “f”, allophone of /z/
- When clustered with a retroflex consonant, allophone of /l/
- When clustered with “p” or “f” or “h”, allophone of /ɻ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | æ: | |||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ʊu | ɑæ | æɑ | ɔo | iɪ | oɔ | ɛe | ɪi | eɛ | uʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old il Mir. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old il MirOrthography | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | Ââ/æ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/ɖ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Êê/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Îî/i:/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NN nn/ɳ/ | Ôô/o:/ | Oo/ɔ/ |
| Pp/p/ | PF pf/p̪͡f/ | Rr/ɻ/ | Ss/z/ | Tt/d̪/ | TZ tz/d͡ʒ/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Ûû/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/ʐ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
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