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==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
Millennish is written with the Latin script. | |||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
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|+ Vowels | |||
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! !! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] [[w:Unrounded vowel|unrounded]] !! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] [[w:Rounded vowel|rounded]] !! [[w:Back vowel|Back]] | |||
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! [[w:Close vowel|High]] | |||
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] || [[w:Close front rounded vowel|y]] || [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] | |||
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! [[w:Mid vowel|Mid]] | |||
| [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|e]] || [[w:Open-mid front rounded vowel|œ]] || [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|o]] | |||
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! [[w:Open vowel|Low]] | |||
| [[w:Open front unrounded vowel|a]] || || [[w:Open back unrounded vowel|ɑː]] | |||
|} | |||
*Unstressed /i,y,u,{e,a},o/ are realized as [ɪ,ʏ,ʊ,ə,ɔ]. | |||
**[ə]-sonorant and [ə]-voiced fricative sequences are realized as syllabic consonants. | |||
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|+ Diphthongs | |||
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| iə ɪə || uə | |||
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| eə || oə | |||
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| ɛi || œy | |||
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| ai ɑːi || au ɑːu | |||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Stress is variable but predominantly initial. | Stress is variable but predominantly initial. | ||
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===Noun and verb phrases=== | ===Noun and verb phrases=== | ||
Possessors, numerals, and adjectives precede their head. Genitives and adverbs follow their head. | |||
===Dependent clauses=== | ===Dependent clauses=== | ||
Dependent clauses directly follow their head. | |||
==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||
===Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1=== | ===Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1=== | ||
'''All fulk fśa enn eliek in wyt enn rechten eburen. Je ešenkez miz fresteit enn weitech enn aich in broteršepes anz hannel anty. | |||
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|All fulk fśa enn eliek in wyt enn rechten eburen. | |||
|all person.PL free and alike in worth and right-PL bear.PASS | |||
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|Je ešenkez miz fresteit enn weitech enn aich in broteršepes anz hannel anty. | |||
|3PL.N endow.PASS with reason and conscience and ought in brothership-GEN spirit handle.INF other | |||
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===Linguifex-hosted translations=== | ===Linguifex-hosted translations=== | ||