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Vruxma
Vruxma /ˈvruxma/ is a classical language of Tricin and a significant source of loanwords in Gussnish and Cuam.
Phonology
a e i o u ə ɨ y (a e i o u ə î ü)
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Lateral | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
Aspirated Stop/Affricate | p /p/ | t /t/ | c /ts/ | tł /tɬ/ | č /tʃ/ | k /k/ | ||
Unaspirated Stop/Affricate | b /b/ | d /d/ | dz /dz/ | dλ /dɮ/ | dž /dʒ/ | g /g/ | ||
Voiceless Fricative | f /f/ | θ /θ/ | s /s/ | ł /ɬ/ | š /ʃ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | |
Voiced Fricative | v /v/ | δ /ð/ | z /z/ | λ /ɮ/ | ž /ʒ/ | γ /ɣ/ | ||
Voiceless Trill | rh /r̥/ | |||||||
Voiced Trill | r /r/ | |||||||
Approximant | l /l/ | y /j/ | w /w/ |
In some accents, the trill /r/ is merged with /l/, the voiceless trill is merged with /h/, and /r/ is eliminated in Cr- clusters.
Morphology
General idea: "a synthetic fusional language with Thai pragmatics"
Nouns
Vruxma nouns occur in four cases: topical, direct, oblique, vocative; as well as absolute, definite, and construct states.
Notably, number marking in Vruxma occurs only in the construct state. Vruxma has a system of classifiers like Thai, and plural marking generally occurs only on classifiers -- otherwise nouns are plurality-neutral.
Vruxma has no grammatical gender.
Pronouns
Pronouns are generally optional in Vruxma, and are often substituted with titles or kinship terms. These are generally used to specify age, gender, and other attributes.
Vruxma has a three-way system of demonstratives which cause nominal referents to show up in the definite or construct state.
Verbs
Vruxma verbs include what would be considered verbs, adjectives, and prepositions in Indo-European languages.