Ormå

Ormå
ormå píppi
Pronunciation	[ormɔ ˈpi.ppi]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2023
Native to	Ormå Nation
Ethnicity	Ormå people
Language family	Yeldhic Ulmic Umic Ormå
Early forms	Proto-Yeldhic Proto-Ulmic Proto-Umic
Official status
Official language in	Ormå Nation, Southern Ulmis
Recognised minority language in	Southern Ulmis, Moshuria
Regulated by	Ormả Committee(Kikilẽ Ormå)

Ormå(/ormo/, ormå píppi; Ormå: [ormɔ ˈpi.ppi]) is a language spoken by the Ormå people of the southern areas of the tundras of Ulmis. It is an Umic language, so it is related to the languages of Umį and Pailä. The Umic languages themselves are a sub-branch of the Ulmic languages, which includes Pêrsir and Zadję.

It is a fusional SOV language that, like all other Ulmic languages, heavily features nasalised vowels.

Phonology

Orthography

Ormå uses a modified form of the Standard Ulmic Script(SUS), which includes a special letter, ⟨å⟩, that represents the phoneme /ɔ/, which among Ulmic languages is unique to Ormå.

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Velar	Palatal
Plosive	pulmonic	p b	t d	k g	c
	aspirated	pʰ bʱ	tʰ dʱ	kʰ gʱ	cʰ
Trill/tap			r~ɾ
Nasal		m	n̥ n	ŋ
Fricative	pulmonic		s z	x	ç
	velarised		sˠ zˠ
Approximant	pulmonic	w			j
	lateral		l		ʎ

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i y		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid/Near-open	æ		ɔ
Open	a

Nasalised vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ĩ ỹ		ũ
Close-mid	ẽ		õ
Open	ã

Stress

Ormå has no stress pattern, though most speakers tend to go towards paroxytonic stress.