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===Vowels===
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!
! [[w:Front vowel|Front]]
! [[w:Central vowel|Central]]
! [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
|-
| [[w:Close vowel|Close]]
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]], [[w:Near-close near-front unrounded vowel|ɪː]]
|
| [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]], [[w:Near-close near-back rounded vowel|ʊː]]
|-
| [[w:Mid vowel|Mid]]
| colspan="3" | [[w:Mid central vowel|ə]], [[w:Near-open central vowel|ɐː]]
|-
| [[w:Open vowel|Open]]
| colspan="2" | [[w:Open central unrounded vowel|ä]]
| [[w:Open back rounded vowel|ɒ]]
|}


===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===

Revision as of 21:46, 30 October 2024

Makari
Macári
Makari.png
Pronunciation[macçɐ:ri]
Created byAenil
Date2024
Native toLincai (Lićaí)
Early form
Proto-Kinavel

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 ts , kx
Fricative ɸ s ç, x h
Approximant (w) l j, w
Trill r

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i, ɪː u, ʊː
Mid ə, ɐː
Open ä ɒ

Phonotactics