cws
Greetings Guest
home > profile > view_language
Mezhat [MZT]
3▲ 3 ▼ 0
Typology On hold 179 words
[view flag info]
Mezhat
Meşät
[me̞'ʒæt]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 23 December 2014
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:
  • 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This language's dictionary & all of its translations are currently out of date; additionally, it is going through a hiatus, so this will not be fixed soon.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]
Latest vocabulary
tşonarm
kitşnsnap
näk nokiclonk
Language family relationships
Language treeIsolates
 ⤷ Isolate languages
  ⤷  Mezhat
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
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          
  1. before /k/, /g/, /x/, allophone of /n/
  2. as in German, allophone of /pʰ/
  3. as in German, allophone of /tʰ/
  4. as in German, allophone of /kʰ/
  5. allophone of /f/
  6. allophone of /s/
  7. allophone of /ʃ/
  8. allophone of /x/
VowelsFrontCentralBack
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 æʏ øʏ əɪ øɪ ɑʊ æɪ
ɑɪ
  1. actually mid
  2. 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/1ĔĔ 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]2K' k'/kʼ/Ll/l/Mm/m/Nn/n/, [ŋ]3Öö/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]5P' p'/pʼ/Rr/ɾ/
Ss/s/, [z]Şş/ʃ/, [ʒ]Tt/tʰ/, [t]6T' 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]
  1. not a reduced vowel
  2. as in German
  3. before /k/, /g/, /x/
  4. actually mid
  5. as in German
  6. as in German
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Mezhat Auxiliary Verbs 01-Apr-15 05:46
Mezhat's Pronouns
for reference
12-Feb-15 19:16
Typological information for Mezhat

Verb agreementSubject and object
Primary word orderVSO
Number of nominal casesEight cases or more
Noun numbersNo numbers
Morphological typologyAgglutinative

▼ More information ⇋ Compare
privacy | FAQs | rules | statistics | graphs | donate | api (indev)
Viewing CWS in: English | Time now is 28-Mar-24 10:38 | Δt: 1361.1391ms