Matz [MATZ]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersMatz is spoken by a population of 1 .
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of MatzCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | c cʼ | ɟ | k kʼ | g | ʔ1 | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʑ | [x]2 | χ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- The glottal stop is not written at the beginning of the word.
- allophone of /χ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | ɨ: | [ʉ]1 | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ɪ̈ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | [ɵ]2 | |||||||||
| Mid | e̞: | ə | o̞: | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ʌ]3 | ɔ | |||||||
| Near-open | [æ]4 | |||||||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | oɑ | au | ɪə | ɨə | ea | ai | ʊə |
- after palatal consonants
- allophone of /o/ after palatal consonants
- allophone of /ə/ around /χ/
- allophone of /ɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Matz. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MatzOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa ā /ä/ | Āā tʼinken ā /ä:/ | Bb bē /b/ | Cc cē /t͡s/ | Cʼ cʼ cʼē /t͡sʼ/ | Čč čē /t͡ʃ/ | Čʼ čʼ čʼē /t͡ʃʼ/ | Dd dē /d/ | Ee ē /ɛ/ | Ēē tʼinken ē /e̞:/ |
| Ëë ë /ə/ | Ff ef /f/ | Gg gē /g/ | Ģģ ģē /ɟ/ | Hh haš /h/ | Ii ī /ɪ/ | Īī tʼinken ī /i:/ | Jj jē /j/ | Kk kā /k/ | Kʼ kʼ kʼā /kʼ/ |
| Ķķ ķē /c/ | Ķʼ ķʼ ķʼē /cʼ/ | Ll el /l/ | Ļļ eļ /j/ | Łł eł /ɬ/ | Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/ | Ńń eń /ɲ/ | Oo ō /ɔ/ | Ōō tʼinken ō /o̞:/ |
| Pp pē /p/ | Pʼ pʼ pʼē /pʼ/ | Qq kaumä /ʔ/1 | Rr er /r/ | Ŗŗ ŗē /ʑ/ | Ss es /s/ | Šš eš /ʃ/ | Tt tē /t/ | Tʼ tʼ tʼē /tʼ/ | Uu ū /ʊ/ |
| Ūū tʼinken ū /u:/ | Vv vē /ʋ/ | Yy ȳ /ɪ̈/ | Ȳȳ tʼinken ȳ /ɨ:/ | Zz zad /z/ | Žž žē /ʒ/ | ||||
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- The glottal stop is not written at the beginning of the word.
Additional NotesAs in Spanish, /r/ and /ɾ/ are distinct phonemes, and are distinguished by writing /r/ as <-rr-> and /ɾ/ as <-r-> in between vowels. Otherwise, /ɾ/ does not appear word-initially, and the contrast between them is lost in coda position in favor of /ɾ/, which may be pronounced as [ɾ] or [ɹ] in free variation.
