User:IlL/Dọrêmì languages

The Dọrêmì languages are a language family of polysyllabic, predominantly agglutinative tonal languages mostly native to Angai Southeast Asia. It has two subbranches corresponding to different syllable shapes, called the Dọ branch and the Ùt branch in Dọrêmì linguistics from the words for '0'. Proto-Dọrêmì was a polysyllabized monosyllabic tonal analytic language with many homophonous morphemes, much like Mandarin.

Numbers are (from 0) dọ, rê, mì, fā, sỏ, lá, ti, tirê, timì, tifā, tisỏ, tilá, mìti, mìtirê, mìtimì, mìtifā, mìtisỏ, mìtilá, fāti, ... in one language (from *Rot zhe mei pat sau leng ti...)

Family tree

• Doremi
  • Dọ (CV only)
    • Okopi
  • Ùt (VC only)
    • Ùpút

Phonology

966 possible syllables

Initials

9 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)

There are 138 possible rimes, including tone:

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

-e123456 -eng123456 -ek16 -eu123456 -ei123456

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

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

m-, l-, zh-, r- cannot cooccur with low-tone rimes, excluding 4*69=306 syllables

Lexicon

Just calque Mandarin and Sino-Korean

• lik1 'dog' (견)
• zho3 'to love' (애)
• sau4 'to play' (완)
• ip6 'to move' (동)
• koi5 'object, material' (물)
• ip6koi5 'animal'
• zho3sau4ip6koi5 'pet'
• zho3sau4lik1 'pet dog'
  • Okopi ro³³so¹¹li⁵⁵ 'dog'