User:Aquatiki/MSEAL

M.S.E.A.L.
ဧသဃ
Writing	w:Burmese alphabet
Region:	w:Mainland Southeast Asia
Genders:	0
Cases:	0
Alignment	Nominative-Accusative
Typology:	Isolating
Word-Order	SVO
Languages:	w:Burmese, w:Mon language, w:Khmer language w:Vietnamese language w:Lao language w:Thai language w:Hmu language
Population:	233 million
Africa: SEDES • Middle Semitic • Kintu • Guosa Central Asia: Jalpi • Caucas • Zens • Dravindian • Neo-Sanskrit Europe: Intralingua • Folksprak • Interslavic • Balkan • Samboka Far East: Dan'a'yo • IM • MSEAL

MSEAL should have monosyllabic morphemes, lexical tone, a fairly large inventory of consonants, including phonemic aspiration, limited clusters at the beginning of a syllable, and plentiful vowel contrasts. Consider sesquisyllables. Isolating, mostly mono-morphemic words, no inflection and little affixation. Nouns are derived by compounding. Grammatical relations are typically signaled by word order, particles and coverbs or prepositions. Modality is expressed using sentence-final particles. Topic-comment. Classifiers

Anthropology

• AustroAsiatic
  • Khmer
  • Vietnamese
• SinoTibetan
  • Chinese
    • Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, Southwestern Mandarin
  • Bermese
• Kra-dai
  • Tai, Lao, Shan, Kam
• w:Austronesian languages
  • w:Chamic
• HmongMien
  • Hmong
  • Mien

Phonology

MSEAL should have monosyllabic morphemes, lexical tone, a fairly large inventory of consonants, including phonemic aspiration, limited clusters at the beginning of a syllable, and plentiful vowel contrasts. Consider sesquisyllables. Isolating, mostly mono-morphemic words, no inflection and little affixation.

6 vowels

p t c k '
b d
m n ñ ŋ
  r
  l
s _ _ h
w _ _ j

Tones:

1. level
2. rising
3. departing
4. closed syllable/checked