Akhyan

Orthography

The consonant system of Akhyan is characterised by its resemblance as the same consonant system of Sanskrit, with slight deviations. Akhyan has eliminated voiced aspirated consonants, having assimilated to a fricative or deaspirated. Akhyan has a three way contrast of plosives and affricates, including aspirated and unaspirated pairs. The language also features a three-way contrast between sibilants, such as palatal, retroflex, & alveolar. Akhyan uses the Mon-Burmese script.

Consonants

Non-Sibilants		Labial				Dental				Velar
		IPA	Romanisation	script		IPA	Romanisation	script		IPA	Romanisation	script
Nasal		m	m	မ		n	n	န		ŋ	q	င
Plosive	Tenuis	p	p	ပ		t	t	တ		k	k	က
	Aspirated	pʰ	ph	ဖ		tʰ	th	ထ		kʰ	kh	ခ
	Voiced	b	b	ဗ		d	d	ဒ		g	g	ဂ
Fricative	Tenuis	f	f	ၾ						h	x	ဟ
	Voiced	v	v	ဘ						ʔ	' (medial)	အ
Approximant		w	w	ဝ		l	l	လ

Sibilants		Alveolar				Retroflex				Palatal
		IPA	Romanisation	script		IPA	Romanisation	script		IPA	Romanisation	script
Plosive	Tenuis	t͡s	c	ၸ		t͡ʂ	ç	ဋ		t͡ɕ	ć	စ
	Aspirated	t͡sʰ	ch	ႀ		t͡ʂʰ	çh	ဌ		t͡ɕʰ	ćh	ဆ
	Voiced	d͡z	ð	ၻ		d͡ʐ	ł	ဍ		d͡ʑ	j	ၺ
Fricative	Tenuis	s	s	သ		ʂ	ş	ၑ		ɕ	ś	ၔ
	Voiced	z	z	ဓ		ʐ	ż	ၓ		ʑ	ź	ည
Approximant		ɹ	r	ရ						j	y	ယ

Vowels

	Front								Back
	Flat				Round				Flat				Round
	IPA	Romanisation	Script		IPA	Romanisation	Script		IPA	Romanisation	Script		IPA	Romanisation	Script
Close	i	i	ကိ ိ		y	ü	ကၳ ၳ		ɨ	iu	ကၖ ၖ		u	u	ကု ု
Middle	e	e	ကဲ ဲ		ø	ö	ကၲ ၲ		ə	eo	ကါ ါ		o	o	ကး း
Open	ɛ	ai	ကေ ေ		œ	ä	ကႄ ႄ		ɐ	a	က		ɔ	au	ကီ ီ

Although both Virama (္) and Asat (်) delete the inherent vowel, they serve distinct functions. Asat (်), as in က်, marks syllable boundaries, while Virama (္), as in က္, forms consonant clusters. Special forms also emerge when ယ, ဝ, and ရ are combined with a consonant and the virama, resulting in ကျ, ကွ, and ကြ, respectively.

Morphology

Nouns

Akhyan features a system of noun and adjective declension that operates across two grammatical numbers and nine cases, treating both parts of speech with similar morphological rules—so much so that adjectives can conveniently be analysed alongside nouns.

1	Numbers	Singular & Plural
2	Cases	Intransitive, Ergative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative, Locative, Instrumental, Vocative

Akhyan’s declension paradigm is surprisingly streamlined, consisting of only three distinct patterns. The general classification is:

• Akranta အကြန်တ (-a stems)
• Zeokçho ဓါက်ဌး (-o stems)
• Mitaveş မိတဘဲၑ် (Consonant stems)