Mami

Mami
Mami
Pronunciation	[ˈmami]
Created by	Tyman -1
Setting	Orla
Native to	Mami Kingdom/Empire (1 - 1916MY, 1935 - 2200 MY) Kergasian Confederation (1916 - 1935 MY)
Ethnicity	Mamis
Native speakers	122 million (1932)
Language family	Mami languages Môt languages Mami
Early forms	Old Mami Middle Mami
Writing system	Mami

Introduction

Mami (mami, IPA: /ˈmami/) was a Mami language and the ancestor of many Mami languages such as Purple Mami and Yellow Mami; it was spoken by the Mami people and was widespread across the Kergasian Confederation in my worldbuilding project. The modern version of Mami was spoken between 1700 MY and 2200 MY.

The language was made to create a language for the Mamis in my worldbuilding project, it was inspired by German, Latin, and a little bit by Turkish.

Orthography

Mami's Latin orthography is explained below, except for the difference between the circumflex and the h in long vowels. The circumflex is used when the vowel occurs initially or medially, and the h is used when the vowel occurs finally; the only exception is 'ü', which uses h in all positions when it's long.

Writing System

Mami uses the Mami writing system, which is an alphabet.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/
Stop		p /p/ b /b/	t /t/ d /d/			k /k/ g /g/
Affricate				ch /t͡ʃ/ j /d͡ʒ/
Fricative		f /f/ v /v/	s /s/ z /z/	sh /ʃ/		kh /x/ gh /ɣ/	h /h/
Approximant		w /w/			y /j/	w /w/
Trill			r /r/
Lateral fricative			lh /ɬ/
Lateral approximant			l /l/

Vowels

		Front	Back
High		i /i/ î/ih /iː/ ü /y/ üh /yː/	u /u/ û/uh /uː/
Near-high		i /ɪ/
High-mid		ê/eh /eː/	ô/oh /oː/
Low-mid		e /ɛ/	o /ɔ/
Low		a /a/ â/ah /aː/

Diphthongs

The Diphthongs are: /ai/, /au/, /ay/, /ɛi/, /ɛu/, and /ɛy/.

Prosody

Stress

Stress in Mami occurs on the second-to-last syllable.

Phonotactics

The syllable structure in Mami is (C)V(F), with C being a Consonant, V being a vowel, and F being every consonant except /h/, /w/, /j/, and /b/.

Every consonant cluster consisting of FC is permitted except geminate consonants. In consonant clusters like 'mt', and 'mk', the nasal assimilates to the place of articulation of the second consonant, this is also written in the orthography.

Diphthongs split before liquids.

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns in Mami are declined for case and number; they also have six genders: Masculine animate, Masculine inanimate, Feminine animate, Feminine inanimate, Neuter animate, Neuter inanimate.

		Masculine Animate	Masculine Inanimate	Feminine Animate	Feminine Inanimate	Neuter Animate	Neuter Inanimate
Nominative Singular		No affix	No affix	No affix	No affix	No affix	No affix
Nominative Plural		-(kh)ed	-(kh)ir	-(kh)ad	-(kh)ar	-(kh)od	-(kh)or
Accusative Singular		e(kh)-	e(t)-	e(kh)- -(a)t	e(t)-	e(kh)-	e(t)-
Accusative Plural		e(kh)- -(kh)ed	e(t)- -(kh)ir	e(kh)- -tad	e(t)- -(kh)ir	e(kh)- -(kh)ot	e(t)- -(kh)ir
Genitive Singular		-(kh)il	-(kh)eu	-(kh)âl	-(kh)ul	-(kh)ol	-(kh)ol
Genitive Plural		-(kh)etal	-(kh)ireu	-(kh)atal	-(kh)arau	-(kh)otul	-(kh)urul
Dative Singular		-(kh)ik	-(kh)aük	-(kh)ak	-(kh)aük	-(kh)ok	-(kh)uk
Dative Plural		-(kh)etik	-(kh)eraük	-(kh)atak	-(kh)araük	-(kh)otok	-(kh)uruk
Instrumental Singular		-me	-meu	-ma	-mau	-mo	-mu
Instrumental Plural		-(kh)etma	-(kh)irmeu	-(kh)atma	-(kh)armau	-(kh)otmo	-(kh)ormu

Verbs

Verbs are inflected for person and tense.

		Singular	Plural
1st person		-(t)a	-(t)ad
2nd person		-(t)e	-(t)ed
3rd person		-(t)u	-(t)ud

Past		-pa
Present		No affix
Future		nü(kh)-

There are also three particles: ke (negative), ogh (imperative), ugh (interrogative).

Adjectives

Adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to.

		Singular	Plural
Masculine Animate		-(t)a	-(t)et
Masculine Inanimate		-(t)o	-(t)ot
Feminine Animate		-(t)a	-(t)at
Feminine Inanimate		-(t)on	-(t)onat
Neuter Animate		-(t)i	-(t)it
Neuter Inanimate		-(t)u	-(t)ut

Pronouns

Mami personal pronouns
			Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Instrumental
1st person	singular		hu	mu	mul	mok	mo
	plural		hot	ekhot	ekhotul	ekhotok	ekhotmo
2nd person	singular	informal	em	êm	emul	emok	emamo
		formal	tüm	düm	dul	duk	du
	plural	informal	met	emet	emotul	emotok	emotmo
		formal	tut	etut	etutul	etutuk	etutmo
3rd person	singular	masculine	üm	eüm	lüm	ük	üma
		feminine	pe	epet	pil	pak	pema
		neuter	ip	eip	il	ipok	ipmo
	plural	masculine	üt	eüt	tül	eütik	eütema
		feminine	pat	epetat	patal	patak	patma
		neuter	op	eipot	optul	optok	opmo

Articles

		Masculine Animate	Masculine Inanimate	Feminine Animate	Feminine Inanimate	Neuter Animate	Neuter Inanimate
Definite		te	tan	to	tom	te	tim
Indefinite		ih	im	oh	on	ih	êm

Syntax

The Word Order in Mami is SOV, Adjectives go before the noun, and there are postpositions instead of prepositions.