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A miniture language to know the capabilities of natural languages. For that reason lekma/leχmɐ/ is being made.
A miniture language to know the capabilities of natural languages. For that reason lekma/leχmɐ/ is being made.


A sentence is made of (interjection) + SOV + Complement + (particle). Where the particle is a sort of -yes?/-no? things.
A lekma sentence consists of an interjection + agent x clitic x verb + a complement(object/subject/topic) x a particle(, yes?/, no? thing)





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A short introduction

A miniture language to know the capabilities of natural languages. For that reason lekma/leχmɐ/ is being made.

A lekma sentence consists of an interjection + agent x clitic x verb + a complement(object/subject/topic) x a particle(, yes?/, no? thing)


Phonology

  • Each graphemes are listed below the each phonemes.

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-dental Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Retroflex Alveolo-palatal Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Epiglottal Glottal
Nasal m
m
n
n
ɳ
nr
ɲ
nh
ŋ
un,-nn
Plosive p b
ff,b b,rb
t d
tt,t,d d,rd
k g
k,c c,rc
ʔ
kk
Affricate t͡s
tz
ʈ͡ʂ
tr
t͡ɕ
th
Fricative f
f
θ
cz
s
s
ʂ
sr
ɕ
sh
χ
-k,ch
ɦ
hh
Approximant ʋ
v
j
i-
Trill ʀ
hr
Flap or tap ɾ
-r,-rr-
Lateral app. l
l
ʎ
lh


Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close i y
i ü
ɯ u
û u
Close-mid e ø
e ö
o
o
Open-mid ʌ
ô
Near-open ɐ
â
Open ä
a

Morpheme/Particle of nouns

the agent of a transitive verb the subject of an intransitive verb the direct/indirect/locative object of a verb possessive form plural form plural genetive form Word
*ac/ʔɐk/ nac/nɐk/ sac/sɐk/ ac/ʔɐk/ ács/ʔäks/ ácen/ʔäːgen/ ácens/ʔäːgens/ I
*üe/ʔyː/ nü/nyː/ sü/syː/ üe/ʔyː/ ües/ʔyːes/ üen/ʔyːen/ üens/ʔyːens/ You
*hhai/ɦäi/ ainaé/ɦäinnäe/ aisaé/ɦäisäe/ hhai/ɦäi/ hhais/ɦäis/ aien/ɦäien/ aiens/ɦäiens/ They
*kkae/ʔae/ aenaé/ʔaenäe/ aesaé/ʔaesäe/ àe/ʔae/ àies/ʔaies/ àien/ʔaien/ àiens/ʔaiens/ thing
  • I have comfirmed that lekma has spelling irregularities in it.
  • hhai takes the same declension as the other nouns.

Morpheme/Particle of verbs

present/habitual predicational form of verb predicational adjective: the motion is processing/incomplete predicational adjective: the motion is in the future/subjunctive mood predicational adjective: the motion is at a completion Word
*sel/sel/ ser[seɾ] selínde/selindɐ/ seat/seɦät/ selínt/selint/ be
*bal/bäl/ bar[bäɾ] balínde/bälindɐ/ baat/bäɦät/ balínt/bälint/ have
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