| Name: Rang-Masunhow
Type: Agglutinate Alignment: Nominative-Accusative Head Direction: Tail Number of genders: 2 Declensions: Yes Conjugations: Yes
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Phonology[]
Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Labio-Dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m | n | ng | ||||||
| Plosive | t
(d) |
c
(j) |
k
(g) |
q | ' | ||||
| Fricative | w | f | ϸ | s | x | h | |||
| Affricate | ts | c
(j) |
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| Approximant | w | y | |||||||
| Flap | r | ||||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | y | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
Diphthongs[]
| a | ay | aw |
| e | ey | ew |
| o | oy | ow |
Syllables[]
The syllable structure in Rang-Hahaife primarily consists of consonant-vowel clusters, though some consonants may end a syllable.
ng, n, h
Additionally, some consonant clusters are permitted at the onset of a syllable.
s + n, f, t, ϸ, k, r
Intervocalic plosives become voiced, and this may be altered in the orthography
t-d k-g c-j
All syllable onsets may be palatalized or labialized
(e.g. sy, sw)
The letter y without any other vowels surrounding it represents a high-mid unrounded vowel, though if it ends a word, it palatalizes the preceding consonant
A few consonants may be geminated:
s, l, n, m
Nouns[]
Gender[]
Nouns occur in one of two genders: animate and inanimate. A noun's gender is almost completely arbitrary, except that living people and animals can be assumed to have animate gender most of the time. Abstract nouns (cf English tion/ment/ing) are almost always inanimate.
Inanimate nouns will commonly end in:
-no, nu, ille, meho, o, u, e, hine
Animate nouns will commonly end in:
-a, i, y, n, ng, h, ife
Definiteness[]
There is no indefinite article in Rang-Masunhow. The definite article is the suffix -ya
Masy (person) - Masya
Keng (fish) -Kengya
Firu (house) Firuya
The definite suffix follows all other suffixes
Number[]
Rang-Masunhow has three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. However most nouns cannot exist in all three numbers. Some nouns only have a dual form and not a plural, and vice versa. A few nouns cannot be counted and cannot be dual or plural. All nouns may be singular. The numbers are declined according to gender.
| Animate | Inanimate | |
|---|---|---|
| Dual | -(w)ah | -(w)oy |
| Plural | -(w)ang | -(w)oy |