POPE (Mòmì) Pronunciation
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Almost all vowels and consonants follow a kind of ternary phoneme harmony, which is reflected in the grammar.
In one word, neutral, soft and hard phonemes cannot be mixed. Indifferent phonemes are allowed anywhere.
Because of this, diacritics are only necessary on the first letter of every word.
I give the way it is written in the language in bold, the pronunciation of the letters as well as an understandable transcription in brackets.
Stress is always on the same stem syllable. Note that a stem can have up to three syllables, and there is no indication which of them is the stressed syllable. Morphological affixes or clitics are never stressed, though.
Vowels
| neutral: | A ɛ (è) | E ɪ (ì) | O ɔ (ò) | U ʊ (ù) |
| AA ɛ (è) | EE ɪ (ì) | OO ɔ (ò) | UU ʊ (ù) | |
| soft: | Ã æ (ä) | Ẽ i (i) | Õ ø (ö) | Ũ y (ü) |
| ÃA æ�? (ää) | ẼE i�? (ii) | ÕO ø�? (öö) | ŨU y�? (üü) | |
| hard: | �? a (a) | É e (e) | Ó o (o) | Ú u (u) |
| �?A a�? (aa) | ÉE e�? (ee) | ÓO o�? (oo) | ÚU u�? (uu) |
The indifferent vowel is I ə (y).
Consonants
| neutral: | P m (m) | T n (n) | K ŋ (ng) |
| PP m (m) | TT n (n) | KK ŋ (ng) | |
| soft: | P̃ v (v) | T̃ z (z) | K̃ [[IPA: �?|�?]] (rh) |
| P̃P f (f) | T̃T s (s) | K̃K x (kh) | |
| hard: | P�? b (b) | T�? d (d) | K�? g (g) |
| P�?P p (p) | T�?T t (t) | K�?K k (k) |
There are two indifferent consonants: L l (l) and J r (r).
- Introduction
- Pronunciation
- Nouns and Adjectives
- Postpositions
- Articles
- Numbers
- Verbs
- PU (to be)
- Word Order
- Origin of the Name
- Vocabulary
- Examples
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