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Background
The Adzamasi language is a fantasy lang created for the Adzamasiin, a nomadic desert people of the world of Mygith (a med-fantasy project). It took some original inspiration from Turkish phonology, but grammatically it much more closely resembles Athabaskan and Inuit languages. Adzamasi is highly agglutinative, polysynthetic, and its word order follows the animacy hierarchy.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Plosive | b | d, t | c, j | k | q | ||
| Ejective | tt | cc | kk | ||||
| Fricative | v | þ | s | z | x | r | h |
| Approximant | w | l | y |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ii | ü, üü | u, uu |
| Mid | e, ee | ö, öö | o, oo |
| Open | a | aa |
Phonotactics
Onset clusters are not permitted, while complex codas are. Syllables must be of three morae or less - therefore long vowels may not be followed by a clusters.