Cuma [UCA]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cuma
Cuma is a private use language with vowel harmony, a complex noun class system, and tenseless verbs.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | [ç]1 | x | h | ||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ɬ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i i: | ɯ ɯ: | ||||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Close-mid | ø ø: | |||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||||||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cuma. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
CumaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/a/, /ə/ | Cc/k/, /t͡ʃ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, /ɪ/, /j/ | Iı/ɯ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/, /ŋ/ | Öö/ø/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/ʃ/, /s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |