Mot Ma‘a [MQA]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
⤷ Polynesian
⤷ Tahitic
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Mot Ma‘a
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
⤷ Polynesian
⤷ Tahitic
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Mot Ma‘a[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||
| Fricative | v | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ʉ ʉ: | ||||
| Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||
| Open | ɑ: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | oʉ̯ | ɑɛ̯ | ei̯ | oɛ̯ | ɑʉ̯ | ɑɔ̯ | ɑi̯ | oi̯ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mot Ma‘a. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Mot Ma‘aOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa a /ɐ/ | Āā a-to‘utō /ɑ:/ | Ee e /ɛ/ | Ēē e-to‘utō /e:/ | Hh hei /h/ | Īī i-to‘utō /i:/ | Ii i /i/ | Kk kei /k/ | Ll eli /l/ | Mm emi /m/ |
| Nn eni /n/ | Oo o /ɔ/ | Ōō o-to‘utō /o:/ | Pp pi /p/ | Tt ti /t/ | Ūū u-to‘utō /ʉ:/ | Uu u /ʉ/ | Vv vi /v/ | ‘ ‘a‘ae /ʔ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
