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Ossmalic
| Ossmalic Оссмал | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | [os.smal] |
| 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 |
| 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/ | і /j/ | х /x/ | хь /xʲ/ | |
| Approximant | л /l/ | ль /lʲ/ | |||||
| Type | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Close | и /i/ | у /u/ |
| Mid | е /e/ | о /o/ |
| Open | а /a/ | |
Animate:
- мадсьаі "human" [sg], мадсьедье "people" [pl]
- сьолаі "river" [sg], сьоледье "rivers" [pl]
- хвалаі "horse" [sg], хваледье "horses" [pl]
Inanimate:
- смал "mountain" [sg], смаль "mountains" [pl]
Adjective prefixes
Colours
- маг- "black, dark"
- ос- "white, light"
- тил- "immoral, wicked, evil"
