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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|Nasal]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]] | |||
| | | [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]] | ||
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| | | [[w:Affricate consonant|Affricate]] | ||
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial affricate|pɸ]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless alveolar affricate|ts]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless palatal affricate|cç]], [[w:Voiceless velar affricate|kx]] | |||
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| | | [[w:fricative consonant|Fricative]] | ||
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial fricative|ɸ]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless alveolar fricative|s]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless palatal fricative|ç]], [[w:Voiceless velar fricative|x]] | |||
| [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|h]] | |||
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| [[w:Approximant consonant|Approximant]] | |||
| ([[w:Voiced labio-velar approximant|w]]) | |||
| [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]] | |||
| [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]], [[Voiced labio-velar approximant|w]] | |||
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| [[w:Trill consonant|Trill]] | |||
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| [[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]] | |||
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Revision as of 21:35, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
| Affricate | pɸ | ts | cç, kx | |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ç, x | h |
| Approximant | (w) | l | j, w | |
| Trill | r |