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Revision as of 08:35, 5 June 2024

Ormå
ormå píppi
Pronunciation[ormɔ ˈpi.ppi]
Created byJukethatbox
Date2023
Native toOrmå Nation
EthnicityOrmå people
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 byOrmả Committee(Kikilẽ Ormå)
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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.

Etymology

Ormå comes from Ancient Ormå ormorri, a term referring to a tundra that is naturally protected from harsher winds by some other geographical feature, typically hills. ormorri may come from Proto-Ulmic *olmuy, "silence", which would make Pêrsir ulmii, "volume", cognate with ormorri.

Phonology

Orthography

Ormå uses a modified form of the Standard Ulmic Script(SUS)[1], which includes a special letter, ⟨å⟩, that represents the phoneme /ɔ/, which among Ulmic languages is unique to Ormå. Additionally, the common digraphs ⟨sk⟩ and ⟨zg⟩ are pronounced /sˠ/ and /zˠ/ respectively, instead of /sk̚/ and /zg̚/ in other Ulmic languages like Pêrsir or Pailä.

Consonants

Bilabial/
Labiodental
Alveolar Velar Palatal
Plosive pulmonic p b t d k g c
aspirated pʰ bʱ tʰ dʱ kʰ gʱ
Trill/tap r~ɾ
Nasal m n̥ n ŋ
Fricative pulmonic f v s z x ç
velarised fˠ vˠ 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 õ
Open ã

Stress

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

Morphology

Nouns

Number

Ormå, like all Ulmic languages, differentiates between single, dual and plural grammatical number, which vary according to the four grammatical genders of masculine, feminine, passive neuter and active neuter.

Grammatical number with thåsk, skyd, nncẽ & mittä
number   
   gender
Singular Dual Plural
Masculine thåsk thåski thåskir
Feminine skyd skydje skydjus
Neuter Passive nncẽ nncẽmmi nncẽmmä
Active mittä mittäpyr mittäfyr

Other resources

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