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Mayyahi (numa Mayyaħī) is a language of Tricin's Onishia. It has a Proto-Semitic, Sanskrit and Modern Standard Arabic aesthetic and is spoken by the Mayyaħ people.

It is diglossic like Arabic and there are many basilects of Mayyaħī, some of which are mutually unintelligible.

Phonology

p t k b d g ʔ m n s z ts ʃ ʒ l r w y ħ ʕ tʕ q sʕ tsʕ h

Begadkefat: p t k b d g -> f θ x v ð ɣ (written ph th kh bh dh gh)

Vowels: a ā i ī u ū e o ai au (as in Sanskrit)

Anusvara inspired by mimation, visarga inspired by ta marbuta and he mappiq