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Minurese
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| Minurese | |
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| minūrikit | |
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| Pronunciation | [miˈnuːɾiki̥t] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2025 |
| Native to | Minūrun |
| Ethnicity | Minurese people |
| Native speakers | 12,117,078 (400 BH) |
Upé-Ontic
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Minūrun |
Minurese(minūrikit, Minurese:[miˈnuːɾiki̥t]) is a Central Ontic language spoken by the Minurese people(minūripiḷ) of Minūrun. Spoken by around 12,117,078 people natively in Minūrun(around 33% of the population), Minurese is the second most spoken language there by native speakers after Logun and an official language of the multi-ethnic country. As an Ontic language, it is related to the neighbouring language of Ingdikh; many Minurese people migrate to Ingdikh at some point in their lives for work thanks to this close relationship. It has also been suggested that the Ontic languages, including Minurese, may be related to the Upé languages which include Logun and Teš.
As a second language, Minurese is by far the most popular second language in Minūrun; this is mostly due to the domination of Minurese people in Minūrun administration. This has, however, also led to deep ethnic tensions, in particular with the Logun people, who make up a slim majority of the population; it has also led to the marginalisation of other languages and peoples, in particular the indigenous Gomin, Vekanda, Ndigi and Ojan.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | pulmonic | p | t tː | k | |||
| aspirated | pʰ | (cʰ) | kʰ | ||||
| Fricative | (ɸ) | s sː | h | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |||
| Lateral | l | ɭ | (ʎ) | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | |||||
/ɸ/ is an unstressed intervocalic allophone of /pʰ/. /cʰ/ is an allophone of /kʰ/ before /i iː/. /ʎ/ is a coda allophone for /l/. /t k/ are often lightly palatalised before /i iː/; these are generally unmarked even in IPA, though if needed these are represented as /t̟ k̟/.
Geminated consonants /tː sː/ are phonemic and are not derived from similar consonants on syllable boundaries; they are probably derived from earlier aspirated */tʰ sʰ/.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Close-mid | e eː | ɘ ɘː | o oː |
| Open | a aː |
/i e ɘ/ are devoiced when unstressed and surrounded by voiceless obstruents, as in ītis [ˈiːti̥s] or fosyk [ˈpʰosɘ̥k].
Long vowels are never devoiced and are typically always stressed; in the case of two long vowels, as in nānō [ˈnaːnoː] the first long vowel is stressed.