Gomin

Gomin
ngominyáame
Pronunciation	[ŋomɪɲáːmɛ]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2025
Setting	Radael
Native to	Suksapal, Minūrun
Ethnicity	Gomin people
Native speakers	56,380 (400 BH)
Language family	Vekandic Gomin
Official status
Official language in	Minūrun

Gomin (/'ɡoʊ̯mɪn/ GOH-min; Gomin: ngominyáame [ŋomɪɲáːmɛ]) is the native language of the Gomin people, one of few groups in Radael that are entirely indigenous to Radael. It is one of six official languages in Minūrun and has a stable speaker population of around 56,380, making it the 3rd most spoken language by number of native speakers in Minūrun, after Logun and Minurese. Most of them live in the Suksapal region where the Gomin people are native.

Linguistically, Gomin is a Vekandic language, making it a sister language of Vekanda, another official language of Minūrun; both languages are also pitch-accent languages and agglutinative, with fairly similar grammars.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	ɛ		o
Open		a

Short /a i u/ retract to [ɐ, ɪ, ʊ] between two consonants of the same category, such as zus [θʊs] "silk" (two fricatives) or ngomin [ŋomɪn] "Gomin" (two nasals).

Additionally, all these vowels are distinguished via vowel class; see the following section for more.

Vowel classes

Gomin vowels are divided into four vowel classes: short, long, high short and high long; these are phonemically distinguished by vowel length and pitch.

	Short	Long
Mid	[a] ba [ba] "tree"	[aː] baa [baː] "fan"
High	[á] bá [bá] "not"	[áː] báa [báː] "high"