Mascarene [MASC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersMascarene is spoken by a population of around 1,400,000 in Réunion and Mauritius.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mascarene
Bahasa Bênatula is a fictional Austronesian language native to the Mascarene Islands (). The three islands were settled during the same migrations of Austronesians that settled Madagascar. The proto-language that Bahasa Bênatula is based on therefor is Proto-Malay, because evidence suggests that Malagasy likely also evolved from Proto-Malay. Bahasa Bênatula is a relative of the other descendants of Proto-Malay, and so its morphological typology has similarities. As is typical of indigenous languages influenced by European colonization, there is French influence in the vocabulary.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | v | ð | s | ʐ | χ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | (y) | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | ɘ | o | |||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mascarene. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MascareneOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ðð/ð/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʐ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
| Uu/u/ | Ûû/y/1 | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/χ/ | G̃ g̃/ŋ/ | Yy/j/ | Êê/ɘ/ | '/ʔ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- loan words only
