Mezhat [MZT]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mezhat
A largely agglutinating language with VSO word order, several animacy classes, vowel harmony that's essentially a cross between the inventories of Turkish and Finnish, and very simplistic T-A-M. It lacks a separate class of adjectives, with such words instead being treated as verbs.
Features:
This language's dictionary & all of its translations are currently out of date; additionally, it is going through a hiatus, so this will not be fixed soon.
Features:
- Many, many diphthongs
- Initial consonant mutation on plural nouns.
- Obligatory active/passive/reflexive marking on verbs.
This language's dictionary & all of its translations are currently out of date; additionally, it is going through a hiatus, so this will not be fixed soon.
Sample of Mezhat[view] Aub himbelük'ü, aub ettü solwuk'u me aubanjĕb.
Sing for choices, sing for everyone, without voices.[view all texts]
Sing for choices, sing for everyone, without voices.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | [p]2 pʼ pʰ | b | [t]3 tʼ tʰ | d | [k]4 kʼ kʰ | g | ||||||||||
Fricative | f | [v]5 | s | [z]6 | ʃ | [ʒ]7 | x | [ɣ]8 | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before /k/, /g/, /x/, allophone of /n/
- as in German, allophone of /pʰ/
- as in German, allophone of /tʰ/
- as in German, allophone of /kʰ/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | y y: | ɨ ɨ: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | ø1 ø: | |||||
Mid | e̞ e̞: | ə2 ə: | o̞ o̞: | |||
Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
Open | ɑ ɑ: |
Polyphthongs | eʏ | æʏ | eɪ | oɪ | oʊ | øʏ | əɪ | øɪ | ɑʊ | æɪ |
ɑɪ |
- actually mid
- not a reduced vowel
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mezhat. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
MezhatOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Ää/æ/ | Aa/ɑ/ | ÄÄ ää/æ:/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | ÄI äi/æɪ/ | ÄÜ äü/æʏ/ | AU au/ɑʊ/ | AY ay/ɑɪ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/x/, [ɣ] |
Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/ | Ĕĕ/ə/1 | ĔĔ ĕĕ/ə:/ | EE ee/e̞:/ | EI ei/eɪ/ | EÜ eü/eʏ/ | ĔY ĕy/əɪ/ | Ff/f/, [v] | Gg/g/ |
Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/kʰ/, [k]2 | K' k'/kʼ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]3 | Öö/ø/4 |
Oo/o̞/ | ÖI öi/øɪ/ | ÖÖ öö/ø:/ | OO oo/o̞:/ | OU ou/oʊ/ | ÖÜ öü/øʏ/ | OY oy/oɪ/ | Pp/pʰ/, [p]5 | P' p'/pʼ/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
Ss/s/, [z] | Şş/ʃ/, [ʒ] | Tt/tʰ/, [t]6 | T' t'/tʼ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TŞ tş/t͡ʃ/ | TŞ' tş'/t͡ʃʼ/ | TS' ts'/t͡sʼ/ | Üü/y/ | Uu/u/ |
ÜÜ üü/y:/ | UU uu/u:/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/ɨ/ | YY yy/ɨ:/ | |||||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- not a reduced vowel
- as in German
- before /k/, /g/, /x/
- actually mid
- as in German
- as in German
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