Maypaw [MYP]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
Quaxin XunRegional
Quaxin XunRegionalSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Maypaw
another 
Mañi baby
features include:
- fused evidentiality/subject marking
- clusivity only marked on transitive verbs
- future/present distinction marked only by stem tone change
- a plural clitic that goes wherever it wants and fuses to whatever it wants
- register tone system with three registers (high modal, mid creaky, low modal)
- frankly indecent amounts of <z> /ʒ/
Mañi babyfeatures include:
- fused evidentiality/subject marking
- clusivity only marked on transitive verbs
- future/present distinction marked only by stem tone change
- a plural clitic that goes wherever it wants and fuses to whatever it wants
- register tone system with three registers (high modal, mid creaky, low modal)
- frankly indecent amounts of <z> /ʒ/
Sample of Maypaw[view] Tézap ru ânâl nâꞌân sónch o.
A woman washes cassava in the river.[view all texts]
A woman washes cassava in the river.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Wa Ñi[view] About NgerupicWith over one hundred languages and approximately 500 million speakers in total, the Ngerupic languages comprise one of the largest language families on Sahar, spoken predominantly in Akulanen, Soltenna, and the Terminian Dominion. Countries with Nge...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ʒ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i ḭ í | u ṵ ú | ||
| Close-mid | e ḛ é | o o̰ ó | ||
| Open | a a̰ á | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Maypaw. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MaypawOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/á/ | Ââ/a̰/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | DX dx/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/e/ | Êê/ḛ/ | Éé/é/ | Íí/í/ | Ii/i/ | Îî/ḭ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ññ/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Óó/ó/ | Ôô/o̰/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Úú/ú/ | Uu/u/ | Ûû/ṵ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Ꞌꞌ/ʔ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
