Iduni [IDUN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Iduni
- Topic-Prominent syntax
- Split-Ergative morphology (only the past perfective exhibits ergativity)
- 6 distinctly marked noun cases
- Postnominal determiners and numerals
- Both prenominal and postnominal adjectives (prenominal adjectives agree in case and number, postnominal adjectives do not agree)
- No subject or object agreement displayed on the verb
- Distinct mirative/indirect evidential forms of verbs in the past tense only
- Distinct middle and passive voices marked on the verb
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]2 | θ | [ð]3 | s | x | [ɣ]4 | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]5 | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
- prior to velar sounds, allophone of /n̪/
- in intervocalic positions, allophone of /b/
- in intervocalic positions, allophone of /d̪/
- in intervocalic positions, allophone of /g/
- prior to, after, or between vowels, allophone of /i/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ1 | |||
| Open | a a: | |||
- only appears in stressed syllables
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Iduni. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 IduniOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/, [ð]1 | Ēē/e:/ | Ee/e/ | Éé/ɛ/2 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [ɣ]3 | Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/, [j]4 | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/, [ŋ]5 | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t̪/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | Xx/x/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- in intervocalic positions
- only appears in stressed syllables
- in intervocalic positions
- prior to, after, or between vowels
- prior to velar sounds
