Aoma
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Aoma together with Rinap form the main languages of Herookuan family deriving from the ancestral Rinapri (< ancestral language of our ancestors).
Phonology
Very similar to Rinapian ones
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | f v | θ ð | z s | ʃ ʒ | x | h | |||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | |||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
| Lateral app. | l |
Consonants k, l, m, n, p, ɹ, r, s and t all have a geminated version which are mostly found in two-syllable verb infinite forms. The double-consonants have special marks in written Mihkanor so glottal stop is indicated by writing the consonants separately. Notice: pp [p:ʰ], tt [tθ]
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i y | u |
| Near-Close | ɪ | ʊ |
| Close-Mid | e ø | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ œ | ʌ ɔ |
| Near-open | æ | |
| Open | a | ɑ |
Similarly to consonants, vowels have geminated forms marked with special graphemes so that glottal stop is indicated by writing the short graphemes separately. Since i, æ and œ are often written over preceding consonants, there is a special glottal stop grapheme for them.
Basics
Aoma is a Verb-Subject-Object language with strong head-initiality (right-branching). The language has two numbers (Singular and Plural), three persons (first, second and third), five cases (nominative, accusative, prepositional, dative and genitive) and four genders (divine, masculine, feminine and neuter). Important to the speakers and the society is the formal register with Polite forms of second person pronouns, honorifics and anti-honorifics.
Verbs are conjugated according to person, number, tense, aspect, mood which are indicated by suffixes, prefixes and reduplication. There are three conjugations: vowel-ending (a/o and e), consonant-ending (m and tes/kes/hes) and irregular which do show characteristics of either first or second conjugation.
Noun declension according to number and case correlates with the four noun classes which are indicated by the last vowel: divine a, masculine y, feminine u and neuter i. The declension is shown with suffixes and apophony.