Eighth edition lekma

A short introduction

A miniture language to know the capabilities of natural languages. For that reason lekma/leχmɐ/ is being made.

A sentence is made of (interjection) + SOV + Complement + (particle). Where the particle is a sort of -yes?/-no? things.

Phonology

• Each graphemes are listed below the each phonemes.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal	m m			n n		ɳ nr		ɲ nh	ŋ un,-nn
Plosive	p b ff,b b,rb			t d tt,t,d d,rd					k g k,c c,rc				ʔ kk
Affricate				t͡s tz		ʈ͡ʂ tr	t͡ɕ th
Fricative		f f	θ cz	s s		ʂ sr	ɕ sh			χ -k,ch			ɦ hh
Approximant		ʋ v						j i-
Trill										ʀ hr
Flap or tap				ɾ -r,-rr-
Lateral app.				l l				ʎ lh

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i y i ü				ɯ u û u
Close-mid	e ø e ö				o o
Open-mid					ʌ ô
Near-open			ɐ â
Open			ä a

Morpheme/Particle of nouns

	the agent of a transitive verb	the subject of an intransitive verb	the direct/indirect/locative object of a verb	possessive form	plural form	plural genetive form	Word
*ac/ʔɐk/	nac/nɐk/	sac/sɐk/	ac/ʔɐk/	ács/ʔäks/	ácen/ʔäːgen/	ácens/ʔäːgens/	I
*üe/ʔyː/	nü/nyː/	sü/syː/	üe/ʔyː/	ües/ʔyːes/	üen/ʔyːen/	üens/ʔyːens/	You
*hhai/ɦäi/	ainaé/ɦäinnäe/	aisaé/ɦäisäe/	hhai/ɦäi/	hhais/ɦäis/	aien/ɦäien/	aiens/ɦäiens/	They
*kkae/ʔae/	aenaé/ʔaenäe/	aesaé/ʔaesäe/	àe/ʔae/	àies/ʔaies/	àien/ʔaien/	àiens/ʔaiens/	thing

• I have comfirmed that lekma has spelling irregularities in it.
• hhai takes the same declension as the other nouns.

Morpheme/Particle of verbs

	present/habitual predicational form of verb	predicational adjective: the motion is processing/incomplete	predicational adjective: the motion is in the future/subjunctive mood	predicational adjective: the motion is at a completion	Word
*sel/sel/	ser[seɾ]	selínde/selindɐ/	seat/seɦät/	selínt/selint/	be
*bal/bäl/	bar[bäɾ]	balínde/bälindɐ/	baat/bäɦät/	balínt/bälint/	have
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