Ruyman [RUY]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ruyman
Ruyma is the proto-language of Rùma , the modern-day lingua franca on the continent of Lonos. It was spoken by the second wave of Lonos colonizers, who arrived a century after the Skaradyr people of northern Valdare.
Ruyma is a nominative-accusative, head-final language, with the exceedingly uncommon (and perhaps unstable?) OVS sentence structure.
Ruyma is a nominative-accusative, head-final language, with the exceedingly uncommon (and perhaps unstable?) OVS sentence structure.
Language family relationships
[view] About RuymaRuyman languages today are spoken throughout the continent of Lonos, but they originated on the continent of Oselli. Extant Ruyman languages are few in number, and while mutually unintelligible, are remarkably similar in vocabulary.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s s̟ | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | [j]1 | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /i/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | aɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ruyman. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
RuymanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
'/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Çç/s̟/ | CC cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
Ii/ɪ/ | Ìì/aɪ/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
Ss/s/ | SC sc/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/i/, [j] | Zz/z/ | ZC zc/ʒ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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Evolution of Rùma
A description of how the Rùma language came to be.
03-Jun-18 17:23