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.

Verbs