Azarian

Azarian Mejinsyè
Spoken in:	Azaria (Mejín)
Conworld:	Melin
Total speakers:	?
Genealogical classification:	Borogoni Bori Melonian Azarian
Basic word order:	SVO
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Pierre Abbat	late 1970s

Phonetics

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i ĩ
High-mid										o õ
Mid					(ə) (ə̃)
Low-mid			ɛ ɛ̃	(œ) (œ̃)
Low					a ã

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m
Plosive	p	b					t	d					k	g
Fricative			f	v	s̪	z̪	sʲ	zʲ	ʃ ʃʲ	ʒ ʒʲ					h

Alphabet

Azarian has the same alphabet as Malwinish, except for letters representing sounds not found in both languages.

Transliteration	Sound	Notes
k	k
o	o
s	s	Usually a dental sibilant, but the dental and alveolar sibilants are allophones.
j	ʒ
z	z
h	h	Initial hi is voiceless i, unless followed by a vowel, in which case a diphthong results.
v	v
b	b	The letter for v originally represented b, and that for b is a modification of it.
a	a
g	g
e	e	Pronounced as either ɛ or ə.
x	ʃ
t	t
i	i
f	f
m	m
p	p
d	d
y	j	Diacritic indicating palatalization of s, z, x, and j, and diphthong with o, a, and e.
n	◌̃	Diacritic indicating a nasal vowel.