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Ardzumic
Rjimâya [r̩dzɪˈma:ja]
ArdzumicRjimâya [r̩dzɪˈma:ja]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ardzumic
Ardzumic is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and affixes. Ardzumic distinguishes three classes of words: nominals, verbs, and particles.
Nominals are inflected for one of the nine cases and for possession. Verbs are inflected for one of the four tenses, three moods and for the number and person of its subject and object. Both nominals and verbs have complex derivational morphology. Basic word order in transitive clauses is verb-subject-object. A fourth-person category enables switch-reference between main clauses and subordinate clauses with different subjects.
Ardzumic is generally a head-initial language, but the word order is relatively free. As there are no true adjectives, most nominals have an attributive function - they precede the modified nominal, syntactically forming a compound nominal. Adverb-particles follow the verbs they modify, and conjunctions are usually the first element in a clause.
Ardzumic is a pro-drop language, making very little use of free-standing pronouns. It has no articles nor grammatical gender.
Nominals are inflected for one of the nine cases and for possession. Verbs are inflected for one of the four tenses, three moods and for the number and person of its subject and object. Both nominals and verbs have complex derivational morphology. Basic word order in transitive clauses is verb-subject-object. A fourth-person category enables switch-reference between main clauses and subordinate clauses with different subjects.
Ardzumic is generally a head-initial language, but the word order is relatively free. As there are no true adjectives, most nominals have an attributive function - they precede the modified nominal, syntactically forming a compound nominal. Adverb-particles follow the verbs they modify, and conjunctions are usually the first element in a clause.
Ardzumic is a pro-drop language, making very little use of free-standing pronouns. It has no articles nor grammatical gender.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | [m̥]1 | m | n [n̥]2 | ŋ [ŋ̥]3 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | q qʼ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | [ɦ]4 | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | d͡z | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]5 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r [r̥]6 | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /ŋ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
| Mid | o̞ o̞: | |||||||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Syllable StructureCCVC
Stress informationPenultime, or the leftmost heavy syllable (long vowel, diphthong, or before a consonantal cluster) if the penultime is a light syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ardzumic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ArdzumicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Ââ/ä:/ | Bb/b/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Čʼ čʼ/t͡ʃʼ/ | Cʼ cʼ/t͡sʼ/ | Dd/d/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/ɣ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Îî/i:/ | J̌ǰ/d͡ʒ/ | Jj/d͡z/ | Kk/k/ | Kʼ kʼ/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o̞/, /o̞/ | Ôô/o̞:/ | Pp/p/ | Pʼ pʼ/pʼ/ | Qq/q/ | Qʼ qʼ/qʼ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Tʼ tʼ/tʼ/ |
| Ûû/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Žž/ʒ/, /ʃ/ | Zz/z/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
