Sumrë
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Background
Sumrë is the language spoken by the Sumnë, a nomadic peoples from Malomanan. In fact the language name Sumrë itself means travel speech The Sumnë live of mainly by hunting deer as they follow their migration routes. Sumrë is a fusional language, having suffixes which express both person and tense. Though when expressing things such as directions or the location of an object, are expressed as suffixes like in some agglutinative languages.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | ||||||||||||
| Trill | ||||||||||||
| Flap or tap | ||||||||||||
| Lateral fric. | ||||||||||||
| Lateral app. | ||||||||||||
| Lateral flap |
Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
| Open |
Phonotactics
Illegal consonant clusters are 'nd' anywhere in a word. though the following are only illegal at the end of a word 'nt,nd,nc,mb,nt,ng,rd,rt'. the following are allowed: 'rn and nm'.