Makari

Makari
Macári
Pronunciation	[macçɐ:ri]
Created by	Aenil
Date	2024
Native to	Lincai (Lićaí)
Language family	Language isolate Makari
Early form	Proto-Kinavel
Writing system	Latin

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	Qq	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