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1 Phonology and orthography | |||
1.1 Consonants | |||
1.2 Vowels | |||
1.3 Digraphs and trigraphs | |||
1.4 Alphabet | |||
1.5 Nota bene | |||
2 Grammar | |||
2.1 Cases | |||
2.2 Nouns | |||
2.2.1 Masculine | |||
2.2.2 Feminine | |||
2.2.3 Neuter | |||
2.2.4 Diminutives and augmentatives | |||
2.3 Articles | |||
2.3.1 Definite | |||
2.3.2 Indefinite | |||
2.4 Adjectives | |||
2.5 Comparatives | |||
2.5.1 More | |||
2.5.2 Less | |||
2.5.3 As... as | |||
2.6 Superlatives | |||
2.6.1 Most | |||
2.6.2 Least | |||
2.7 Personal pronouns | |||
2.7.1 Masculine | |||
2.7.2 Feminine | |||
2.7.3 Neuter | |||
2.7.4 Reflexive | |||
2.8 Possessives | |||
2.9 Interrogative pronouns | |||
2.10 Relative pronouns | |||
2.11 Demonstrative pronouns | |||
2.12 Verbs | |||
2.12.1 Tenses and moods | |||
2.12.1.1 Indicative mood | |||
2.12.1.2 Conditional mood | |||
2.12.1.3 Imperative mood | |||
2.12.9 Polarity | |||
2.12.10 Irregular verbs | |||
2.13 Adverbs | |||
2.14 Word order | |||
3 Numerals | |||
3.1 Cardinal | |||
3.2 Ordinal | |||
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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Revision as of 00:56, 26 December 2014
Background
Late Ma'nijr has retained 60-70% of its English ancestor, but radical sound changes and syllable reductions created words that were unrecognizable from their original forms. Numerous homophones emerged, which exerted pressure on the language to disambiguate these homophones. For example, the original American English words big, fruit, and visit merged in Middle Ma'nijr into /vɪʔ/, represented orthographically in the Reformed Harless-Colter system as <vih'>. In Late Ma'nijr, compounding and other derivational processes were applied to <vih'> to reduce the number of homophones, yielding <vimvih'> (big-and-big), <vi'aew> (fruit-apple), and <givih'> (go-visit).
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | ||||||||||||
| Trill | ||||||||||||
| Flap or tap | ||||||||||||
| Lateral fric. | ||||||||||||
| Lateral app. | ||||||||||||
| Lateral flap |
Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
| Open |