Old Masat [MASS]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Masat
thi wanh hian!
Thi wanh ian!
/ʈi waɳ i͡an̪/
1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I greet 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)
Welcome!
Masat, or nhiangbing is a proto-lang of another family, I'm working on.
nhiangbing honbingbing nhian thuw nhiang maisaitho po ganggiam maisaitho.
Nhiangbing onbingbing nhian thuw nhiang Maisaitho po ganggiam Maisaitho.
/ɳi͡aˈŋbiŋ oˈn̪biŋbiŋ ɳi͡an̪ ʈuw ɳi͡aŋ ma͡isa͡ˈiʈo po gaŋgi͡ˈam ma͡isa͡ˈiʈo/
river-speak IPFVImperfective (aspect)
'interrupted or incomplete'-speak-REDUPReduplication
full or partial reduplication of a word, stem, root, or morpheme.PASTPast tense (tense)
action occurred before moment of speech in delta river maisaistho from man-PLPlural (number)
more than one/few maisaitho
The Masat language was spoken in the delta of the river Maisaitho by the Maisaitho people.
So far it has:
SVO word order Prepositions ~Isolation? 4th person pronouns Reduplication Singular, plural, collective numbers
thi wanh hian!
Thi wanh ian!
/ʈi waɳ i͡an̪/
1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I greet 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)
Welcome!
Masat, or nhiangbing is a proto-lang of another family, I'm working on.
nhiangbing honbingbing nhian thuw nhiang maisaitho po ganggiam maisaitho.
Nhiangbing onbingbing nhian thuw nhiang Maisaitho po ganggiam Maisaitho.
/ɳi͡aˈŋbiŋ oˈn̪biŋbiŋ ɳi͡an̪ ʈuw ɳi͡aŋ ma͡isa͡ˈiʈo po gaŋgi͡ˈam ma͡isa͡ˈiʈo/
river-speak IPFVImperfective (aspect)
'interrupted or incomplete'-speak-REDUPReduplication
full or partial reduplication of a word, stem, root, or morpheme.PASTPast tense (tense)
action occurred before moment of speech in delta river maisaistho from man-PLPlural (number)
more than one/few maisaitho
The Masat language was spoken in the delta of the river Maisaitho by the Maisaitho people.
So far it has:
Sample of Old Masat[view] Ma'ong younhksoim, mingngi punh.
The strong survive; the noble overcome.[view all texts]
The strong survive; the noble overcome.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b [bʷ]1 | t̪ | d̪ | ʈ | ɖ | k [kʷ]2 | g [gʷ]3 | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ɭ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | k͡ʂ | k͡s |
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | o | |||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | o͡i | i͡a | o͡u | a͡i | a͡o |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Masat. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old MasatOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| h ' /ʔ/ | ha a /a/ | hai ai /a͡i/ | b b /b/ | d d /d̪/ | dh dh /ɖ/ | dzh dzh /ɖ͡ʐ/ | f f /ɸ/ | g g /g/ |
| hi i /i/ | hia ia /i͡a/ | k k /k/ | ks ks /k͡s/ | ksh ksh /k͡ʂ/ | l l /ɭ/ | m m /m/ | n n /n̪/ | ng ng /ŋ/ |
| nh nh /ɳ/ | ho o /o/ | hoi oi /o͡i/ | hou ou /o͡u/ | p p /p/ | pf pf /p͡ɸ/ | r r /r/ | s s /s/ | sh sh /ʂ/ |
| t t /t̪/ | th th /ʈ/ | tsh tsh /ʈ͡ʂ/ | hu u /u/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | z z /z/ | zh zh /ʐ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
