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==Phonology== | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
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! !! [[w:Labial consonant|Labials]] !! [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolars]] !! [[w:Palatal consonant|Palatals]]/<br>[[w:Velar consonant|Velars]] !! [[w:Labial consonant|Glottals]] | |||
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! || [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasals]] || [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] || [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]] || [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|ŋ]] || | |||
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===Vowels=== | |||
===Phonotactics=== | |||
[[Category:Makari]] | [[Category:Makari]] | ||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
Revision as of 21:13, 30 October 2024
| Makari | |
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| Macári | |
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| Pronunciation | [macçɐ:ri] |
| Created by | Aenil |
| Date | 2024 |
| Native to | Lincai (Lićaí) |
Language isolate
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Early form | Proto-Kinavel
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Makari (autoglossonym: Macári, Makari : /macçɐ:ri/) is a language spoken in the province of Lincai (Makari : Lićaí /liçaɪ:/). After the Kinavel language was brought to Lincai, the language undergone a small number of phonological changes, like the loss of the uvular sounds, and a fricatization of the plosives, that gave a fully-fledged affricate set, replacing the old Kinavel plosive set
Etymology
The language name is derived from the Proto-Kinavel word *n¹qarí /ɳ̩qerɪː/ meaning "language, speech", which gave the Kinavel word nŭkeri /nuˑkeri/ meaning "communication"
Orthography
Alphabet
The Makari alphabet is composed of 24 letters (20 "base letters" and 4 "diacritic letters") :
| Makari alphabet (in order) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aa | Áá | Cc | Ćć | Ee | Pp | Ff | Hh | Ii | Íí | Jj | Kk | Xx | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Rr | Tt | Ss | Uu | Úú | Vv | |
Phoneme type
During the rest of the article, and especially in grammar, the letters C, V and M will be referring to different type of phonemes. Here's a table of correspondence :
| Letter | Description |
|---|---|
| C | All consonants |
| V | Non-diacritical vowels |
| M | Diacritical vowels |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labials | Alveolars | Palatals/ Velars |
Glottals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | |
| Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |