Mami

Classical Mami
Mami
Pronunciation	[ˈmami]
Created by	Tyman -1
Setting	Ulep
Native to	Kergasian Confederation
Ethnicity	Mamis
Native speakers	100 million (1932)
Language family	Mami languages Môt languages Classical Mami
Early forms	Old Mami Middle Mami
Writing system	Mami

Introduction

Classical Mami (mami, IPA: /ˈmami/) was a Mami language and the ancestor of many Mami languages such as Purple Mami and Yellow Mami; it was spoken by the Mami people and was widespread across the Kergasian Confederation in my conworld. It was spoken between 1700 MY and 2200 MY, there was an attempt to make Mami the main lingua franca of Ulep, but the grammar was too complicated for people to learn.

The language was made to create a language for the Mamis in my conworld, it was inspired by German, Latin, and a little bit by Turkish.

Orthography

Classical Mami's Latin orthography is explained below, except for the difference between the circumflex and the h in long vowels. The circumflex is used when the vowel occurs initially or medially, and the h is used when the vowel occurs finally; the only exception is 'ü', which uses h in all positions when it's long.

Writing System

Classical Mami uses the Mami writing system, which is an alphabet.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/
Stop		p /p/ b /b/	t /t/ d /d/			k /k/ g /g/
Affricate				ch /t͡ʃ/ j /d͡ʒ/
Fricative		f /f/ v /v/	s /s/ z /z/	sh /ʃ/		kh /x/ gh /ɣ/	h /h/
Approximant		w /w/			y /j/	w /w/
Trill			r /r/
Lateral fricative			lh /ɬ/
Lateral approximant			l /l/

Vowels

		Front	Back
High		i /i/ î/ih /iː/ ü /y/ üh /yː/	u /u/ û/uh /uː/
Near-high		i /ɪ/
High-mid		ê/eh /eː/	ô/oh /oː/
Low-mid		e /ɛ/	o /ɔ/
Low		a /a/ â/ah /aː/

Diphthongs

The Diphthongs are: /ai/, /au/, /ay/, /ɛi/, /ɛu/, and /ɛy/.

Prosody

Stress

Stress in Classical Mami occurs on the second-to-last syllable.

Phonotactics

The syllable structure in Classical Mami is (C)V(F), with C being a Consonant, V being a vowel, and F being every consonant except /h/, /w/, and /j/.

Every consonant cluster consisting of FC is permitted except geminate consonants, and so are some FF clusters. In consonant clusters like 'mt', and 'mk', the nasal assimilates the to the place of articulation of the second consonant, this is also written in the orthography.

Diphthongs split before liquids.

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns in Classical Mami are declined for case and number; they also have six genders: Masculine animate, Masculine inanimate, Feminine animate, Feminine inanimate, Neuter animate, Neuter inanimate.

		Masculine Animate	Masculine Inanimate	Feminine Animate	Feminine Inanimate	Neuter Animate	Neuter Inanimate
Nominative Singular		No affix	No affix	No affix	No affix	No affix	No affix
Nominative Plural		-(e)d	-(i)r	-(a)d	-(a)r	-(o)d	-(o)r
Accusative Singular		e-	e(t)-	e- -t	e(t)-	e-	e(t)-
Accusative Plural		e- -(e)d	e(t)- -(i)r	e- -tad	e(t)- -(i)r	e- -ot	e(t)- -(i)r
Genitive Singular		-(i)l	-eu	-(â)l	-(x)ul	-(o)l	-(o)l
Genitive Plural		-(e)tal	-(i)reu	-(a)tal	-(a)rau	-(o)tul	-(u)rul
Dative Singular		-(i)k	-(aü)k	-(a)k	-(aü)k	-(o)k	-(u)k
Dative Plural		-(e)tik	-(e)raük	-(a)tak	-(a)raük	-(o)tok	-(u)ruk
Instrumental Singular		-me	-meu	-ma	-mau	-mo	-mu
Instrumental Plural		-(e)tma	-(i)rmeu	-(a)tma	-(a)rmau	-(o)tmo	-(o)rmu

Verbs

Verbs are inflected for person and tense.

		Singular	Plural
1st person		-(t)a	-(t)ad
2nd person		-(t)e	-(t)ed
3rd person		-(t)u	-(t)ud

Past		-pa
Present		No affix
Future		nü-

Verbs also have a negative particle ke.

Adjectives

Adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to.

		Singular	Plural
Masculine Animate		-(t)a	-(t)et
Masculine Inanimate		-(t)o	-(t)ot
Feminine Animate		-(t)a	-(t)at
Feminine Inanimate		-(t)on	-(t)onat
Neuter Animate		-(t)i	-(t)it
Neuter Inanimate		-(t)u	-(t)ut

Articles

		Masculine Animate	Masculine Inanimate	Feminine Animate	Feminine Inanimate	Neuter Animate	Neuter Inanimate
Definite		te	tan	to	tom	te	tim
Indefinite		ih	im	oh	on	ih	êm

Syntax

The Word Order in Classical Mami is SOV, Adjectives go before the noun, postpositions go after the noun phrase.