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'''Lemizh''' (<span style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">[[Help:IPA|[lεˈmiʒ]]]</span>, <small>native pronunciation:</small> <span style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">[[Help:IPA|[lɛˈmɯ̀ʒ]]]</span>) is a language I invented with the aim of creating a grammar as regular and simple as possible. It was originally intended as an international auxiliary language. However, it turned out that a simple grammar is not necessarily a grammar that is easy to learn. | '''Lemizh''' (<span style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">[[Help:IPA|[lεˈmiʒ]]]</span>, <small>native pronunciation:</small> <span style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">[[Help:IPA|[lɛˈmɯ̀ʒ]]]</span>) is a language I invented with the aim of creating a grammar as regular and simple as possible. It was originally intended as an international auxiliary language. However, it turned out that a simple grammar is not necessarily a grammar that is easy to learn: the more ways I discovered to simplify the grammar, the further away it moved from Indo-European and probably all other familiar language structures. Expecting anyone to learn Lemizh, at this point, would be completely unrealistic. | ||
So I needed a new justification for the language: enter the Lemizh, a people living to the west and north of the Black Sea in an alternate history that drifted away from ours between two and eight millennia ago. Of course, it is extremely unlikely that they would speak a language that was completely exceptionless. To be precise, the chances | So I needed a new justification for the language: enter the Lemizh, a people living to the west and north of the Black Sea in an alternate history that drifted away from ours between two and eight millennia ago. Of course, it is extremely unlikely that they would speak a language that was completely exceptionless. To be precise, the chances are two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. But they say that everything has to happen somewhere in the Multiverse. And everything happens only once. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
The alphabet phonetic: each letter corresponds to a certain sound, and each sound is represented by a single letter. This article uses the standard transcription of the native Lemizh alphabet. | |||
The direction of writing is left to right. | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! colspan="2" | !! bilabial !! dental !! alveolar !! postalveolar !! velar | |||
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| colspan="2" | nasals || m <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || || || ng <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="2" | plosives || p <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless bilabial plosive|p]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • b <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced bilabial plosive|b]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || t <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless alveolar plosive|t]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • d <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar plosive|d]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || k <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless velar plosive|k]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • g <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced velar plosive|g]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="2" | fricatives || f <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless bilabial fricative|ɸ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • w <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced bilabial fricative|β]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || th <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless dental fricative|θ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • dh <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced dental fricative|ð]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || s <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant|s]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • z <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar sibilant|z]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || sh <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless palato-alveolar fricative|ʃ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • zh <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced palato-alveolar fricative|ʒ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || x <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless velar fricative|x]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • gh <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced velar fricative|ɣ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="3" | liquids || lateral approximant || || || l <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || | |||
|- | |||
| approximant || || || rh <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar approximant|ɹ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || | |||
|- | |||
| trill || || || r <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || | |||
|} | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
=== | ===Accent=== | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||
<!-- An example of a translated or unique text written in your language. Again, it is recommended that you make sure that the phonology, constraints, phonotactics and grammar are more or less finished before writing. --> | <!-- An example of a translated or unique text written in your language. Again, it is recommended that you make sure that the phonology, constraints, phonotactics and grammar are more or less finished before writing. --> | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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