Melpomenese [MPM]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Melpomenese
Created by us and þree oðer people over on a Discord server for a worldbuilding project of ours, Melpomenese is ðe lingua franca of Melpomenia, ðe aforementioned world we're building.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
| Nasal | [m̥]1 | m | [n̥]2 | n | [ŋ̊]3 | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | ||
| Fricative | ɸ ɸ: | β β: | s s: | z z: | x x: | ɣ ɣ: | ||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]4 | |||||||
| Approximant | β̞ | ɹ | j | |||||
- syllable final, allophone of /m/
- syllable final, allophone of /n/
- syllable final, allophone of /ŋ/
- syllable final, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | o | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ei | ui | ai | ɤi | əu | ou | ɤu | əi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Melpomenese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MelpomeneseOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AI ai/ai/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Êê/ə/ | Ee/e/ | EI ei/ei/ | ÊI êi/əi/ | ÊU êu/əu/ | Ff/ɸ/ | FF ff/ɸ:/ |
| Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | HH hh/x:/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ɣ/ | JJ jj/ɣ:/ | Kk/k/ | K' k'/kʼ/ | Ll/l/, [ɬ]1 | Mm/m/, [m̥]2 | Nn/n/, [n̥]3 |
| Oo/o/ | Ôô/ɤ/ | ÔI ôi/ɤi/ | OU ou/ou/ | ÔU ôu/ɤu/ | Pp/p/ | P' p'/pʼ/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | SS ss/s:/ | Tt/t/ |
| T' t'/tʼ/ | Uu/u/ | UI ui/ui/ | Vv/β/ | VV vv/β:/ | Ŵŵ/β̞/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZZ zz/z:/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/, [ŋ̊]4 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- syllable final
- syllable final
- syllable final
- syllable final
