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Medzmayan
Tą Mezma'a
Pronunciation	/mɪdz.ˈma.jan/ΕΝ [taʊ̯ mɛd͡z.mɑ.ˈʔɑ]MZ
Spoken in	Nunshavi
Total speakers	??? million aprox.
Language family	Tansian Old Medzmayan Medzmayan
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Official language in	Nunshavi
Regulated by
Language codes
ISO 639-1	mz
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–
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Medzmayan or Tą Mezma'a (natively) is a language of …

Medzmayan is a fusional language characterized by the use of difrasismo/kenning and honorifics. Its basic word order is VSO.

Contents 1 Geographic distribution 1.1 Dialects 2 History 3 Phonology 3.1 Consonants 3.2 Vowels 3.3 Stress 4 Writing system 4.1 Orthography 5 Grammar 5.1 Morphological Type 5.1.1 Consonant mutation 5.2 Pronouns 5.2.1 Grammatical cases 5.3 Adjectives 5.4 Nouns 5.4.1 Grammatical cases 5.5 Adverbs 5.6 Verbs 5.7 Grammatical Particles 6 Vocabulary 7 Examples

Geographic distribution

Dialects

History

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Plosive	prenasalized	mb	nd			ŋg
	voiceless	p	t			k	ʔ
Affricate			d͡z	d͡ʒ
Fricative			s	ʃ		x	h
Approximant		β⁓w	l		j
Rhotic				ɾ⁓r

• Consonants presented in pairs are allophones of each other.

Vowels

	front	back
close	i	u
	ɪ · ʏ
mid	ɛ	ɔ
open		ɑ

Stress

Writing system

Medzmayan is mainly written in the ??? script since ancient times.

The Latin alphabet was adopted to improve international communication.

Aa, Ąą, Pp, Tt, Kk, Ee, Ęę, Ww, Hh, Ii, Mm, Nn, Ll, Oo, Ǫǫ, Xx, Ss, Rr, Uu, Ųų, Ůů, Yy, Cc, Qq, Zz

• Some phonetic sounds represented by a single grapheme in the Terac script, are represented by digraphs in its Latin form

Orthography

Grapheme	Phonetic realization	Examples
a	[ɑ]
ą	[aːʊ̯]
p	[p]
t	[t]
k	[k]
e	[ɛ]
ę	[ɛːʊ̯]
ee	[eɪ̯]
eu	[øʏ̯]
w	[β⁓w]
h	initial & intervocalic position [h]
	final position, spirantize preceding vowel [h]
i	[ɪ⁓i]
m	[m]
mp	[mb]
n	[n]
nt	[nd]
nk	[ŋg]
nn	[ŋ]
l	[l]
o	[ɔ]
ǫ	[ɔːʊ̯]
x	[s]
s	[ʃ]
r	initial position [r]
	elsewhere [ɾ]
u	[u]
ų	[ɪːʊ̯]
ů	[ʏ]
y	[j]
c	[d͡ʒ]
q	[x]
z	[d͡z]
<'>	[ʔ]

Grammar

Morphological Type

Consonant mutation

Pronouns

Grammatical cases

Adjectives

Nouns

Grammatical cases

Adverbs

Verbs

Grammatical Particles

Vocabulary

Examples