User:IlL/Dọrêmì languages

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The Dọrêmì languages is a language family of polysyllabic tonal languages mostly native to Imrnga. It has two subbranches corresponding to different syllable shapes, called the Dọ branch and the Ùt branch in Dọrêmì linguistics from the words for '1' Proto-Dọrêmì was a polysyllabized monosyllabic tonal language with many homophonous morphemes, much like Mandarin.

Numbers are dọ rê mì fā sỏ lá ti... in one language (from *Rot zhe mei pat sau leng ti...)

Phonology

Initials

r - a retroflex flap

l - a lateral

m - nasal

p t k - stops

s - fricative

zh - approximants

null initial

Rimes

Vowels are i e a o

Coda consonants: p t k m n ng j w null

Tones are identical to Cantonese (but only 2 entering tones)

-i123456 -im123456 -in123456 -ing123456 -ip16 -it16 -ik16 -iu123456

-e123456 -em123456 -en123456 -eng123456 -ep16 -et16 -ek16 -eu123456 -ei123456

-a123456 -am123456 -an123456 -ang123456 -ap16 -at16 -ak16 -au123456 -ai123456

-o123456 -on123456 -ong123456 -ot16 -ok16 -ou123456 -oi123456