Rumanz [RMU]
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Rumanz
Rumanz [ɑð]*
Rumanz [ɑð]*
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Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rumanz
An experiment in creating an oligosynthetic self-segregating language based (moslty) on romance roots.
Sample of RumanzCan't find any yet.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | ð | s | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||
Open | a | ɑ |
Syllable StructureC*[ɑ,e]
C*[ɛ,o]C
C*[a,i,u]CC
The final C may be a vowel instead, in which case it's followed by the number of consonants expected by that vowel; then this rule is applied again.
C*[ɛ,o]C
C*[a,i,u]CC
The final C may be a vowel instead, in which case it's followed by the number of consonants expected by that vowel; then this rule is applied again.
Stress informationOptional and non-phonemic. It goes on the last syllable if the word ends in two consonants, otherwise it goes on the penultimate syllable.
OtherThe "syllable" structure is a set of recursive rules that allow the creation of infinite self-segregating root morphemes. A word may be a single root, or a concatenation of several roots. Rumanz grammar defines how roots combine into words and sentences in an unambiguous manner.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rumanz. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
RumanzOrthography [edit] | |||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | Cc/ʃ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Jj/ʒ/ | LY ly/ʎ/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Qq/k/ | Zz/ð/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |