Unim [LIP]
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Unim
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Language type
International Auxiliary Language (IAL)
Place & SpeakersUnim is spoken by a population of around 9,000,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Unim
unim is an international auxiliary language from the fictional planet which in unim is called "sodalaki".
The main goals it had in its creation were to be friendly, politically neutral, unambiguous as the speaker desired without requiring too many words, to be easy to pronounce, to have the feel of a natural language, and respect local names and pronunciations. It has a number of little redundancies, a lot of room to adjust to local speakers of the fictional countries who contributed to its creation, and plenty of space for industry jargon to be formulated and added on top of the default vocabulary.
A few defining features and design choices of unim:
1) Nothing in unim truly conjugates morphologically; instead adpositions, adjectives, and simple compounding make up its complex vocabulary and grammar.
2) unim is an analytical language. It's up to the speaker to make what's being said as clear or abstract as they want to. This creates an interesting dichotomy where in government the context is very precise, while in personal context word-building can be relatively vague.
3) All of the 9 billion speakers are of course fictitious and have a linguistic makeup dissimilar but not unfamiliar to Earth's.
The main goals it had in its creation were to be friendly, politically neutral, unambiguous as the speaker desired without requiring too many words, to be easy to pronounce, to have the feel of a natural language, and respect local names and pronunciations. It has a number of little redundancies, a lot of room to adjust to local speakers of the fictional countries who contributed to its creation, and plenty of space for industry jargon to be formulated and added on top of the default vocabulary.
A few defining features and design choices of unim:
1) Nothing in unim truly conjugates morphologically; instead adpositions, adjectives, and simple compounding make up its complex vocabulary and grammar.
2) unim is an analytical language. It's up to the speaker to make what's being said as clear or abstract as they want to. This creates an interesting dichotomy where in government the context is very precise, while in personal context word-building can be relatively vague.
3) All of the 9 billion speakers are of course fictitious and have a linguistic makeup dissimilar but not unfamiliar to Earth's.
Sample of Unim[view] jumexilono titi jomamu. / jomaxilono jumexilono titi gomaxi. / jomaxilono jumexilono i sebemi titi popo. / jomaxilono jumexilono i tomin seneko wo titi ekuwi.
The student came / / The teacher saw the student / / The teacher gave the book to the student / / The teacher did not write the letter to the student[view all texts]
The student came / / The teacher saw the student / / The teacher gave the book to the student / / The teacher did not write the letter to the student[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɳ]1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [pʼ]2 pʰ | b | [t̪ʰ]3 | [d̪]4 | [tʼ]5 tʰ | d | [kʼ]6 kʰ | g | [qʰ]7 | [ɢ]8 | ʔ9 | |||||||||
| Fricative | [θ]10 | s | [z]11 | ʃ | [ʒ]12 | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [ʍ]14 | w | |||||||||||||||||
- usually an allophone that ends syllables after a back vowel, allophone of /n/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /tʼ/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /kʰ/
- allophone of /g/
- inter-vocalic only
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | [e]1 | [o]2 | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||||
| Open | a | [ä]3 | ||||||
- allophone of /ɪ/
- Allowed pronunciation, allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Unim. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 UnimOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| i i /i/ | e e /ɪ/ | a a /a/ | o o /ɔ/ | u u /u/ | p p /pʰ/ | b b /b/ | t t /tʰ/ | d d /d/ | k k /kʰ/ |
| g g /g/ | l l /l/ | j j /j/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | s s /s/ | x x /ʃ/ | w w /w/ | ' ' /ʔ/1 | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- inter-vocalic only
