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{{Infobox Universal Language
 | color = #FDBEA0
 | name = M.S.E.A.L.
 | altname = ဧသဃ
 | Writing System = Burmese alphabet
 | region = Mainland Southeast Asia
 | genders =0
 | cases = 0
 | alignment = Nominative-Accusative
 | proto = 
 | Type = Isolating
 | word-order = SVO
 | child1 = [[w:Burmese]]
 | child2 = [[w:Mon language]]
 | child3 = [[w:Khmer language]]
 | child4 =  [[w:Vietnamese language]]
 | child5 = [[w:Lao language]]
 | child6 = [[w:Thai language]]
 | child7 =  [[w:Hmu language]]
 | population = 233
 | flag =MSEAL.png
}}


'''MSEAL''' should have monosyllabic morphemes, lexical tone, a fairly large inventory of consonants, including phonemic aspiration, limited clusters at the beginning of a syllable, and plentiful vowel contrasts.  Consider sesquisyllables.   Isolating, mostly mono-morphemic words, no inflection and little affixation.  Nouns are derived by compounding.  Grammatical relations are typically signaled by word order, particles and coverbs or prepositions. Modality is expressed using sentence-final particles.  Topic-comment.  Classifiers

== Anthropology ==
* AustroAsiatic
** Khmer
** Vietnamese
* SinoTibetan
** Chinese 
*** Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, Southwestern Mandarin
** Bermese
* Kra-dai
** Tai, Lao, Shan, Kam
* [[w:Austronesian languages]]
** [[w:Chamic]]
* HmongMien
** Hmong
** Mien



== Phonology ==
MSEAL should have monosyllabic morphemes, lexical tone, a fairly large inventory of consonants, including phonemic aspiration, limited clusters at the beginning of a syllable, and plentiful vowel contrasts. Consider sesquisyllables. Isolating, mostly mono-morphemic words, no inflection and little affixation. 

6 vowels

 p t c k '
 b d
 m n ñ ŋ
   r
   l
 s _ _ h
 w _ _ j


Tones:
# level
# rising
# departing
# closed syllable/checked

== Orthography ==
MSEAL uses the [[w:New Tai Lue alphabet]] for its writing system, using it as a true alphabet, not an abugida.  This is a novel way to use an existing alphabet, but it is more familiar to the neighbor who use the latin script, and are accustomed to writing everything down.

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ MSEAL Initial Consonants
|-
! !! Labial !! Alveolar !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal
|-
! Nasal
| /m/ ᦙ
| /n/ ᦓ
| || /ŋ/ ᦇ
| 
|-
! Unaspirated
| /p/ ᦔ
| /t/ ᦑ
| || /k/ ᦂ
| /ʔ/ ᦀ
|-
! Aspirated
| /pʰ/ ᦘ
| /tʰ/ ᦏ
| || /kʰ/ ᦅ
|
|-
! Affricate
| 
| colspan="2" | /ts~tɕ~c/ ᦈ
| || 
|-
! Fricative
| /f~θ/ ᦝ
| colspan="2" | /s~ɕ/ ᦉ
| || /h/ ᦠ
|-
! Approx.
| /v~w~ʋ/ ᦞ
| /l/ ᦟ
| /j/ ᦍ
| | ||
|}

=== Finals and Tone ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Coda Sounds
|-
! p !! t !! k !! m !! n !! ŋ !! w
|-
| ᧇ || ᧆ || ᧅ || ᧄ || ᧃ || ᧂ || ᧁ
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! level !! rising !! departing !! checked
|-
| - || ᧈ || ᧉ || ''coda''
|}

The presence of a coda letter marks the checked tone.
 
=== Vowels ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Vowels and Diphthongs
|-
! !! Front !! Middle !! Back
|-
! High
| /i/ ᦵ || rowspan="2" | /ǝ/ ᦲ ᧀ || /u/ ᦴ ᦼ
|-
! Middle
| /e/ ᦸ ᦾ
| /o/ ᦳ ᦽ
|-
! Low
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | /a/ ᦱ ᦻ
|}



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