Old Mahavic [MHV]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Mahavic
Ancestor of the Mahavic languages. Ultimately descends from Proto-East-Mirarian.
Sample of Old MahavicCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeMahavic
⤷ Proto-Mahavic
⤷ Common Mahavic
⤷ Old Mahavic
⤷ Proto-Mahavic
⤷ Common Mahavic
⤷ Old Mahavic
[view] About MahavicThe Mahavic languages constitute the largest branch of the East Mirarian language family.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | [b]3 | t t: | [d]4 | k k: | [g]5 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | s s: | ʃ (ʃ:) | ɕ6 ɕ: | |||||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ t͡ʃ: | t͡ɕ7 t͡ɕ:8 | [d͡ʑ]9 | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ10 | ||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | [w]11 | [ɥ]12 | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- /nʲ ~ ɲ/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- /sʲ ~ ɕ/
- /t͡sʲ ~ t͡ɕ/
- /t͡sʲ: ~ t͡ɕ:/
- allophone of /t͡ɕ/
- /lʲ ~ ʎ/, disputed
- allophone of /ʋ/ after back vowels
- allophone of /ʋ/ after front vowels
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | y y: | ɯ ɯ: | u u: |
Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | [ɤ]1 [ɤ:]2 | o o: |
Near-open | æ æ: | |||
Open | ɑ ɑ: |
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /e:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Mahavic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old MahavicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
a/ɑ/ | ä/æ/ | ć/t͡ɕ/1 | č/t͡ʃ/ | e/e/ | ë[ɤ] | i/i/ | ı/ɯ/ | k/k/ |
l/l/ | ļ/ʎ/2 | m/m/ | ń/ɲ/3 | n/n/ | o/o/ | ö/ø/ | p/p/ | r/r/ |
š/ʃ/ | s/s/ | ś/ɕ/4 | t/t/ | ü/y/ | u/u/ | v/ʋ/, [w]5 | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- /t͡sʲ ~ t͡ɕ/
- /lʲ ~ ʎ/, disputed
- /nʲ ~ ɲ/
- /sʲ ~ ɕ/
- allophone of /ʋ/ after back vowels
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Mahavic sound changes
PEM to Proto- and Old Mahavic
23-Jun-20 12:08