User:MIGUELbM/Muna v2.8

Phonology

Phonemic Inventory

Consonants
	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	[ŋ]
Stop	p	t	k	[ʔ]
Fricative	f β	s ð	ɣ	h [ɦ]
Flap or tap		ɾ
Lateral app.		l

Consonants between brackets are only allophonic.

Vowel Inventory

	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	i u e ə̥ o a
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Syllable Structure

(C₁)V(C₂)

• C₁: a consonant other than /ɾ l s n/
• C₂: one of /ɾ l s n/
• V: a vowel

Allophony

• [n] assimilate in place of articulation to following consonants
• [h] become voiced [ɦ] between voiced vowels
• [ə̥] are assimilated into aspiration after stops [p t k]
• [ə̥] become [ʔ] word-initially
• [ə̥] become [ɦ] between vowels

Orthography

Romanization
Phoneme	Grapheme
m	m
n	n
p	p
t	t
k	k
f	f
β	b
s	s
ð	d
ɣ	g
h	h
ɾ	r
l	l
a	a
e	e
i	i
o	o
u	u
ə̥	'

Nouns

Cases

• Nominative
• Absolutive
• Genitive
• Dative-Benefactive
• Instrumental
• Commitative
• Locative
  • From the house
  • Through the house
  • To the house
• Temporal
  • Since I was a child
  • As a child
  • Until I was a child

Verbs

Tenses

Tenses work by adding particles, either one or two. These particles are past, present, future.

• None: Gnomic
• Past: Past perfective
• Past past: Past retrospective or Distant past
• Past present: Past continuous
• Past future: Past prospective
• Present: Present perfective
• Present past: Present retrospective
• Present present: Present continuous
• Present future: Present prospective
• Future: Future perfective
• Future past: Future retrospective
• Future present: Future continuous
• Future future: Future prospective or Distant future

Morphosyntax

It's an active-stative language

Main word order is VSO, tends to be head initial.

Relative clauses