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Ossmalic

Ossmalic Оссмал
Pronounced:	[osːmal]
Spoken:	Ossmal
Writing system:	Sealbone Script
Genealogy:	Language isolate
Typology
Morphological type:	???
Morphosyntactic alignment:	ergative-absolutive
Basic word order:	VSO
Credits
Creator:	Malcolm G. Holborne

Consonant phonemes of Ossmalic

		Labial	Coronal		Palatal	Velar
			hard	soft		hard	soft
Nasal		м [m]	н [n̪]	нь [n̪ʲ]
Stop	voiceless	п [p]	т [t̪]	ть [t̪ʲ]		к [k]	кь [kʲ]
	voiced	б [b]	д [d̪]	дь [d̪ʲ]		г [g]	гь [gʲ]
Fricative		в [ʋ]	с [s]	сь [sʲ]		х [x]	хь [xʲ]
Approximant			л [l]	ль [lʲ]	і [j]
Central Click	voiceless		қ [ǀ]		қь [ǂ]
	voiced		ӷ [ᶢǀ]		ӷь [ᶢǂ]
	nasal		ң [ᵑǀ]		ңь [ᵑǂ]
Lateral Click	voiceless		қл [ǁ]
	voiced		ӷл [ᶢǁ]
	nasal		ңл [ᵑǁ]

Vowel Phonemes

Type	Front	Back
Close	и [i]	у [u]
Mid	е [e]	о [o]
Open	а [a]

Diphthongs: иі > еі; уі > оі; еі > и; оі > у; аі > е

Inanimate endings:

-0; -ь [ʲ]

-ä [ʲa]; -e [ʲe]

Animate endings:

-a [a]; -ë [e]

-u [u]; -oi [oj]

-ü [ʲu]; -öi [ʲoj]

Singular:

смал "mountain" [inanimate]; сльола "river" [animate]; тьху "fish" [animate]

Plural:

смаль "mountains"; сльоле "river"; тьхоі "fish"