Cathmirian [THN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cathmirian
Ngirunan is an a priori language. It is based on the alignment system og Tagalog, the inflections of Latin while sounding like the broadest dialects of the North of Gudbrandsdalen in Norway
Some basic features:
- Austronesian alignment
- Fusional
- Three numbers (singular, dual and plural)
- Three nominal cases (direct, indirect and oblique)
- Three pronominal cases (direct, indirect and genitive)
- Three voices (agent trigger, patient trigger and oblique trigger)
- Three aspects (imperfective, perfective and progressive)
- Three tenses (present, past and future)
- Three degrees of proximity (near speaker, near listener and far from both)
- Three nominal declensions
- Three nominal classes (animate, inanimate and abstract)
- Three verbal declensions
Some basic features:
- Austronesian alignment
- Fusional
- Three numbers (singular, dual and plural)
- Three nominal cases (direct, indirect and oblique)
- Three pronominal cases (direct, indirect and genitive)
- Three voices (agent trigger, patient trigger and oblique trigger)
- Three aspects (imperfective, perfective and progressive)
- Three tenses (present, past and future)
- Three degrees of proximity (near speaker, near listener and far from both)
- Three nominal declensions
- Three nominal classes (animate, inanimate and abstract)
- Three verbal declensions
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Other | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ [n̪̥]1 | [ɳ]2 | [ɲ]3 | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t̪ [t̪ʰ]4 | [ʈ]5 | [c]6 | k | |||||||||||
| Fricative | [β]7 | θ | [ð]8 | [ʂ]9 | [ɕ]10 | [ç]11 | ||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ɬ̪]12 | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ̪]13 | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɰ]14 | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r [r̥]15 | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɽ]16 [ɽ̥]17 | |||||||||||||||
- after voiceless vowels at the end of words, allophone of /n̪̥/
- realization of /rn̪/
- before /i/, /e/ or /ç/, allophone of /ŋ/
- after unvoiced vowels at the end of words, allophone of /t̪/
- realization of /rt̪/
- before /ɲ/, allophone of /k/
- short, between vowels, allophone of /p/
- short, between vowels, allophone of /t̪/
- realization of /rθ/
- before [k], allophone of /r/
- before /i/ or /e/, allophone of /k/
- realization of /tl/
- before [t̪], allophone of /l̪/
- short, between vowels, allophone of /k/
- after voceless vowels, allophone of /r̥/
- everywhere, exept word initially, before /n̪/ and when it is long, allophone of /l̪/
- after voiceless vowels, allophone of /l̪/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i [i̯]1 | ʉ [ʉ̯]2 | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aa̯̥ | ee̯̥ | ii̯̥ | ʉʉ̯̥ | uu̯̥ |
- in contact with other vowels, allophone of /i̯/
- in contact with other vowels, allophone of /ʉ̯/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cathmirian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CathmirianOrthography | |||||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Cc/k/ | Ee/e/ | Ii/i/ | Ll/l̪/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/u/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Tt/t̪/ | Uu/ʉ/ | Þþ/θ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||||||
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