Yumean American [YUME]
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Yumean American
Yumean [jymˈjen]
Yumean AmericanYumean [jymˈjen]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersYumean American is spoken by a population of around 1,500,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Yumean American
Yumean is the language spoken by the original colonists of the 10 Tauri System in the 27th century. It is descended from English but began to diverge from the other dialects almost as soon as the colonists left Earth in the mid-2200's.
Sample of Yumean American[view] Yestirit temakit sweet!
You stir it to make it sweet![view all texts]
You stir it to make it sweet![view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | [ʔ] | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | [ɣ]1 | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [ʀ] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | kw | je |
- Intervocalic allophone of /g/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yumean American. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Yumean AmericanOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, /je/ | AU au/o/ | Bb/v/, /b/ | Cc/k/, /s/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | CK ck/k/, [ʔ] | Dd/ð/, /d/ | Ee/æ/, /y/, /ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [ɣ]1 | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/e/, /y/, /æ/, /i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/, [ʔ] | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/u/ | OU ou/ø/ | Pp/p/, [ʔ]2 | QU qu/kw/ |
| Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/, [ʀ] | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/, [ʔ] | TH th/θ/, /ð/, [ʀ]3 | Uu/o/, /y/ | Vv/v/, /w/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/s/ | Yy/j/, /i/ | Zz/z/, [ʀ] |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
- Intervocalic allophone of /g/
- Word final allophone of /p/, /t/, and /k/
- Intervocalic allophone of /ð/, /z/, and /dʒ/
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