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Ormå has four grammatical genders: '''masculine''', '''feminine''', '''passive neuter''' and '''active neuter'''. The distinction between passive and active neuter is quite vague, though the general pattern is that if it is a countable geographical feature that moves by itself, such as a river(''mittä''), it is '''active''' and if not, like a watershed(''nncẽ''), it is '''passive'''. However, some words, like ''krỹse''("snowy mountain"), which would logically be passive, is actually active, because in Ormå mythology, the God of Snowy Mountains, ''Ukkäjan'', supposedly causes avalanches to deter climbers of Mount Kakkijajå, thus making snowy mountains ''active'' deterers of climbers. | Ormå has four grammatical genders: '''masculine''', '''feminine''', '''passive neuter''' and '''active neuter'''. The distinction between passive and active neuter is quite vague, though the general pattern is that if it is a countable geographical feature that moves by itself, such as a river(''mittä''), it is '''active''' and if not, like a watershed(''nncẽ''), it is '''passive'''. However, some words, like ''krỹse''("snowy mountain"), which would logically be passive, is actually active, because in Ormå mythology, the God of Snowy Mountains, ''Ukkäjan'', supposedly causes avalanches to deter climbers of Mount Kakkijajå, thus making snowy mountains ''active'' deterers of climbers. Many of these logical exceptions in the neuter gender are rooted in Ormå mythology. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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| Ormå | |
|---|---|
| ormå píppi | |
| Pronunciation | [ormɔ ˈpi.ppi] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2023 |
| Native to | Ormå Nation |
| Ethnicity | Ormå people |
Yeldhic
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Early forms | Proto-Yeldhic
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| 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.
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 | cʰ | |
| 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 | ẽ | õ | |
| Open | ã |
Stress
Ormå has no stress pattern, though most speakers tend to go towards paroxytonic stress.
Morphology
Nouns
Gender
Ormå has four grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, passive neuter and active neuter. The distinction between passive and active neuter is quite vague, though the general pattern is that if it is a countable geographical feature that moves by itself, such as a river(mittä), it is active and if not, like a watershed(nncẽ), it is passive. However, some words, like krỹse("snowy mountain"), which would logically be passive, is actually active, because in Ormå mythology, the God of Snowy Mountains, Ukkäjan, supposedly causes avalanches to deter climbers of Mount Kakkijajå, thus making snowy mountains active deterers of climbers. Many of these logical exceptions in the neuter gender are rooted in Ormå mythology.
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.
number gender |
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masculine | thåsk "rock" |
thåski | thåskir | |
| Feminine | skyd "bulb" |
skydje | skydjus | |
| Neuter | Passive | nncẽ "watershed" |
nncẽmmi | nncẽmmä |
| Active | mittä "river" |
mittäpyr | mittäfyr | |
Other resources
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