Tba

Tba is an L-Austronesian language spoken in the island of Tbaŝevŭz in Lõis's Southeast Asia. It's inspired by Estonian.

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Phonology

Samanasphuore has 5 vowels: a e i o u, each of which have 4 different forms: short, long, breathy and long breathy. The actual phonetic values of the vowels are as follows:

Vowel	a	e	i	o	u
Short	a /a/	e /ɛ/	i /e/	o /ɔ/	u /o/
Long	ä /ɛ/	ë /ɛ/	ï /ai/	ö /ɔ/	ü /au/
Breathy	ha /ə/	he /e/	hi /i/	ho /o/	hu /u/
Long breathy	hä /uo/	hë /əɨ/	hï /ei/	hö /əɨ/	hu /ou/

Samanasphuore has the following consonants:

• The velars k, g and ṅ, which are pronounced /k⁼/, /kʰ~gʰ/ and /ŋ/. When geminated they are pronounced /ʰk/, /ʔkʰ/ and /kŋ/ respectively.

• The palatals c, j and ñ, which are pronounced /c⁼/, /cʰ~ɟʰ/ and /ɲ/. When geminated they are pronounced /ʰc/, /ʔcʰ/ and /cɲ/ respectively.

• The cerebrals ṭ, ḍ and ṇ, which are pronounced /t⁼/, /tʰ~dʰ/ and /n/. When geminated they are pronounced /ʰt/, /ʔtʰ/ and /tn/ respectively. Unlike in other Indic languages, the cerebrals can be alveolar or dental.

• The dentals z, d and n, which are pronounced /ts⁼/, /tsʰ~dzʰ/ and /n/. When geminated they are pronounced /ʰts/, /ʔtsʰ/ and /tn/ respectively.

• The labials p, b and m, which are pronounced /p⁼/, /pʰ~bʰ/ and /m/. When geminated they are pronounced /ʰp/, /ʔpʰ/ and /pm/ respectively.

• The liquids y, r, l, and w, pronounced /j/, /r/, /l/ and /w/. When geminated they are pronounced /ç/, /tr/, /tl/ and /kw/ respectively.

• The fricative ß, pronounced /s/.

• An orthographic variant s of the liquid r, also pronounced /r/.

The anusvāra ṁ and visarga ch are used in Samanasphuore. The anusvāra is always pronounced /ŋ/, and the visarga indicates that the final vowel of a word is pronounced (not silent).

Morphology

Nouns

Samanasphuore has four noun genders: masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine animate and feminine inanimate, and five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive/dative, instrumental/ablative and locative.

A sample masculine inanimate noun: lökaṃ (world)

"world"	Singular	Plural
Nominative/Accusative	lökaṃ	lökäni
Genitive/Dative	lökaßa	lökänaṃ
Instrumental/Ablative	lökamhä	lökï
Locative	lökasmiṃ	lökäsmiṃ

The suffix -smiṃ is always pronounced /meŋ/.