Vruxma
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Vruxma /ˈvruxma/ is a classical language of Tricin and a significant source of loanwords in Gussnish and Cuam.
Phonology
a e i o u ə ɨ y (a e i o u ə î ü)
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Lateral | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
| Aspirated Stop/Affricate | p /p/ | t /t/ | c /ts/ | tł /tɬ/ | č /tʃ/ | k /k/ | ||
| Unaspirated Stop/Affricate | b /b/ | d /d/ | dz /dz/ | dλ /dɮ/ | dž /dʒ/ | g /g/ | ||
| Voiceless Fricative | f /f/ | θ /θ/ | s /s/ | ł /ɬ/ | š /ʃ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | |
| Voiced Fricative | v /v/ | δ /ð/ | z /z/ | λ /ɮ/ | ž /ʒ/ | γ /ɣ/ | ||
| Voiceless Trill | rh /r̥/ | |||||||
| Voiced Trill | r /r/ | |||||||
| Approximant | l /l/ | y /j/ | w /w/ |
In some accents, the trill /r/ is merged with /l/, the voiceless trill is merged with /h/, and /r/ is eliminated in Cr- clusters.
Morphology
General idea: "a synthetic fusional language with Thai pragmatics"
Nouns
Vruxma nouns occur in four cases: topical, direct, oblique, vocative; as well as absolute, definite, and construct states.
Notably, number marking in Vruxma occurs only in the construct state. Vruxma has a system of classifiers like Thai, and plural marking generally occurs only on classifiers -- otherwise nouns are plurality-neutral.