User:MIGUELbM/Muna v3.0
Introduction
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
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Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||
Flap / tap | ɾ | |||||||||
Fricative | f | s | x | |||||||
Approximant | ʋ | l | h |
Vowels
Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||
Close |
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Near-close | ||||||
Close-mid | ||||||
Mid | ||||||
Open-mid | ||||||
Near-open | ||||||
Open |
Phonotactics
Syllables are minimally V and maximally CrVVK
Syllable | |||
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Onset | Medial | Nucleus | Coda |
(C) | (r) | V (V) | (K) |
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- Medial /ɾ/ can only go after a voiceless consonant and reduces to [l] after a fricative.
- Coda /n/ and /s/ assimilate by place of articulation to the following consonant
- Intersyllabic /ɾ.ɾ/ are fortitioned into /r./
Stress
It has a pitch-accent system that is mostly used to differentiate verbs from non-verbs.
Grammar summary
Basic sentence structure is SOXV, or Subject Object Oblique Verb.
Clause types
Relative
Muna uses a VSO
- Subject
- [girl-agt late came-ptcp] sad
- The girl [who came late] is sad.
- Direct object
- I gave a rose to the girl [that Kate saw].
- I girl rose give
- Indirect object
- John knows the girl [I wrote a letter to].
- john girl know
- Oblique
- I found the rock [which the robbers had hit John over the head with].
- I rock found
- Genitive
- The girl [whose father died] told me she was sad.
- girl I tell
- Obj of Comp
- The first person [I can't run faster than] will win a million dollars.
- first person million dollars win
Comparative
Muna uses an exceed type of comparative, in which a verb roughly meaning 'to exceed' is used with the two compared arguments.