Eighth edition lekma

A short introduction

A miniture language to know natural languages more. For that lekma/leχmɐ/ has been made.

A sentence has (interjection) + SOV + Complement + (particle). Where the particle is a sort of yes?/no? things.

Phonology

• Each consonant has the grapheme below.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal	m m			n n		ɳ nr		ɲ nh	ŋ un,-nn
Plosive	p b ff,b rb			t d t,d rd					k g k-,c rc				ʔ kk
Affricate				t͡s tz		ʈ͡ʂ tr	t͡ɕ th
Fricative		f f	θ cz	s s		ʂ sr	ɕ sh			χ -k			ɦ hh
Approximant		ʋ v						j i-
Trill										ʀ hr
Flap or tap				ɾ -r,-rr-
Lateral app.				l l				ʎ lh

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i y i ü				ɯ u û u
Close-mid	e ø e ö				o o
Open-mid					ʌ ô
Near-open			ɐ â
Open			ä a

Morpheme/Particle of nouns

	the agent of a transitive verb	the subject of an intransitive verb	the direct/indirect/location object of a verb	possessive	plural	plural genetive	Word
*ac/ʔɐk/	nac/nɐk/	sac/sɐk/	ac/ʔɐk/	acs/ʔɐks/	acen/ʔäːgen/	acens/ʔäːgens/	I
*üe/ʔyː/	nü/nyː/	sü/syː/	üe/ʔyː/	ües/ʔyːes/	üen/ʔyːen/	üens/ʔyːens/	You
*hhan/ɦɐn/	annaé/ɦɐnnäi/	ansaé/ɦɐnsäi/	hhan/ɦɐn/	ans/ɦɐns/	anen/ɦɐnen/	anens/ɦɐnens/	S/he
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• I have comfirmed that lekma has spelling irregularities.
• hhan takes of the normal noun declension.

Morpheme/Particle of verbs

	present/habitual predicational form of verb	predicational adjective: processing/incomplete form of verb	predicational adjective: future/subjunctive form of verb	predicational adjective compelete form of verb	Word
*sel/sel/	ser/seɾ/	seinde/seindɐ/	set/set/	seínt/seint/	be
*bal/bäl/	bar/bäɾ/	bainde/bäindɐ/	bat/bät/	baínt/bäint/	have
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