Mablic [MBI]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
MablagOfficial
SpaderlandOfficial
MablagOfficial SpaderlandOfficialSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Mablic
du:gre/tru/gehma/blana izuohme:njeujuhng
Dūg ré trúge hmábla nai zuohmēn jeu juhng!
[túk ɾɛ̌tʰɾǔkɛ m̥ǎpla naɪ̯t͡suo̯m̥ɛ́n t͡ɕɛʊ̯t͡ɕuŋ̥]
Welcome to the Mablic Language page!
page GENGenitive (case)
possessive.ALAlienable (possession)
thing that can be gained or lost STEMWord stem
part of a bipartite stem language Mablic EMPEmphatic
stressed or emphasised STEMWord stem
part of a bipartite stem bow 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you).POLPolite (respect/formality)
formal, polite REALRealis mood (mood)
actual, real events.POLPolite (respect/formality)
formal, polite
Mablic (officially Modern Standard Mablic, MSM) is a tonal, isolating, and mostly monosyllabic and non-inflecting Prra-Blen language spoken on Sahar in the People's Democratic Republic of Mablag.
Features:
- No tense, because who likes that anyway.
- Classifiers, lots of classifiers :)
- Alienability distinction in posession
- Needlessly complicated system of telling time
- Base 12 numbers??? OMG
- Tasty evidentiality
- Two different language registers
Reference grammar (WIP): CLICK
The CWS dictionary is gradually being updated, the full current dictionary is on this spreadsheet: CLICK (Mablic currently has over 2700 words on the spreadsheet)
possessive.ALAlienable (possession)
thing that can be gained or lost STEMWord stem
part of a bipartite stem language Mablic EMPEmphatic
stressed or emphasised STEMWord stem
part of a bipartite stem bow 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you).POLPolite (respect/formality)
formal, polite REALRealis mood (mood)
actual, real events.POLPolite (respect/formality)
formal, polite
Mablic (officially Modern Standard Mablic, MSM) is a tonal, isolating, and mostly monosyllabic and non-inflecting Prra-Blen language spoken on Sahar in the People's Democratic Republic of Mablag.
Features:
- No tense, because who likes that anyway.
- Classifiers, lots of classifiers :)
- Alienability distinction in posession
- Needlessly complicated system of telling time
- Base 12 numbers??? OMG
- Tasty evidentiality
- Two different language registers
Reference grammar (WIP): CLICK
The CWS dictionary is gradually being updated, the full current dictionary is on this spreadsheet: CLICK (Mablic currently has over 2700 words on the spreadsheet)
Sound samples in Mablic
Some sound samples of Mablic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
[Bei dà] O-bi-wān kwo ngao hnó gwo kī nò ré a bai ngē hnó hnau.
[Lūg] Zèn mri gwo jau yəb kī! Mri g...
[Vader] Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. [Luke] He told me enough! He told me ...
[Vader] Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. [Luke] He told me enough! He told me ...
"hnó pá dòr hngeung teu yig?" zèn ré zi drə din zū hnau. "luo gni hnə, jūhn, jòrr hnə...
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"Would you like something to drink?" She opened the fridge. "We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr...Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Language family relationships
Language treePrra-Blen
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Proto-Prra-Blen
⤷ Prra
⤷ North Prra
⤷ Old Mablic
⤷ Middle Mablic
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Mablic
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Proto-Prra-Blen⤷ Prra
⤷ North Prra
⤷ Old Mablic
⤷ Middle Mablic
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Mablic [edit] [view] Biw En (Central Mablic)An Upper Prra dialect (or language) spoken along the southern coast of Mablag (hence the native name "southern tongue"), centered around the cities of Eno, Nangluni, Dor Fadau, and No Amye. Sound changes particular to this dialect: retention of /e/, spirantisation, palatalization, labialization.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n n̥ | ɲ ɲ̥ | ŋ ŋ̥ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | k kʰ | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i î í ǐ | ɯ ɯ̂ ɯ́ ɯ̌ | u û ú ǔ | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̂ ɛ́ ɛ̌ | |||||
| Open | a â á ǎ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ̯ | iʊ̯ | uo̯ | ɯo̯ | io̯ | ɛo̯ | aʊ̯ | ɯɪ̯ | ao̯ | uɪ̯ |
| ɛʊ̯ | ɛɪ̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mablic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| MablicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a\ à /â/ | a^ á /ǎ/ | a: ā /á/ | a a /a/ | a i ai /aɪ̯/ | a o ao /ao̯/ | a u au /aʊ̯/ | b b /p/ | c c /t͡ɕʰ/ | d d /t/ |
| e: ē /ɛ́/ | e e /ɛ/ | e^ é /ɛ̌/ | ə ĕ /ə/ | e\ è /ɛ̂/ | ei ei /ɛɪ̯/ | eo eo /ɛo̯/ | eu eu /ɛʊ̯/ | g g /k/ | gn gn /ɲ/ |
| hgn hgn /ɲ̥/ | hm hm /m̥/ | hn hn /n̥/ | hng hng /ŋ̥/ | i^ í /ǐ/ | i: ī /í/ | i\ ì /î/ | i i /i/ | io io /io̯/ | iu iu /iʊ̯/ |
| j j /t͡ɕ/ | k k /kʰ/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | ng ng /ŋ/ | o: ō /ɯ́/ | o o /ɯ/ | o\ ò /ɯ̂/ | o^ ó /ɯ̌/ |
| oi oi /ɯɪ̯/ | oo oo /ɯo̯/ | p p /pʰ/ | q q /ʔ/ | r r /ɾ/ | rr rr /r/ | s s /t͡sʰ/ | t t /tʰ/ | u u /u/ | u\ ù /û/ |
| u: ū /ú/ | u^ ú /ǔ/ | ui ui /uɪ̯/ | uo uo /uo̯/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | z z /t͡s/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
