Mbembli [MBE]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mbembli
Mbembli's morphology is a hybrid of synthetic and analytic, with VSO word order and nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment. It is characterized phonologically by a labial-coronal-dorsal consonant contrast and phonemic long and short vowels in a pentagonal vowel system.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɲ] | ŋ | ||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | [c] | [ɟ] | k | g | ||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | [ç] | [ʝ] | x | ɣ | ||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ] | [ʊ] | ||||||||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ] | [ɔ] | ||||||||
Near-open | [ɐ] | |||||||||
Open | ä ä: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mbembli. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
MbembliOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Áá/ä:/ | Aa/ä/, [ɐ] | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/, [c] | Dd/d/ | Éé/e:/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ] | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [ɟ] | Hh/x/, [ç] |
Íí/i:/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ] | Jj/j/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Ññ/ŋ/, [ɲ] | Nn/n/ | Óó/o:/ | Oo/o/, [ɔ] | Pp/p/ |
Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Úú/u:/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ] | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/ʎ/ | Zz/z/ | Ħħ/ɣ/, [ʝ] |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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