Mirskya

Mirskya is a Slavic influenced, mixed a priori-posteriori language, by Waahlis.

Introduction
'''Дoʙpьɛɔ Иpaнсa! '- Welcome!''

This page uses IPA phonetic notation as standard.

This page uses non - standard ASII signs.

Мьıpсκя иaɔьyκa, ṁirskya jażyka in the latin script, more simply known by the English exonym "Mirian language", or "Mirskya". The language adheres to the family of a priori-posteriori languages, known as Neumatic languages. They all share the same basis regarding vocabulary and phonotactics, and to some extent, grammar. Mirskya is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, but will be transliterated when necessary.

Many of Mirskya's main sources of inspiration are Slavic languages, which has affected a great deal of the phonology, grammar and vocabulary. You will however find cognates to other Neumatic languages, such as Nāmaς. Examples include the completely artificial word "иaмдя" (jamdya) - war, and the "loan-word" ɔдpava (zdrava) - health, cheers.

A number of it's characteristics are not typical for natural languages, that is, they are rare. For example:
 * The language distinguishes dynamic and stative verbs.
 * It has a transitive morphosyntactic alignment.
 * Consonant harmony, based upon voicedness.
 * Diphtongisation of unstressed syllables.

Consonants
This is a table of the Mirian inventory of consonants, displayed in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The transliterations into different scripts, is found under "Orthography". The consonant inventory contains a considerable amount, though spread over few places and manners of articulation.

Please note that the all the consonants may be palatalised. Except the palatal ones.

Notate Bene

Some of the palatalised consonants, /nʲ/, /lʲ/, /kʲ/ and /gʲ/, receive palatal allophones, which are indistinguishable from their marked counterparts. The palatalisation is a consequence of consonants succeded by front vowels, and is thus generally not marked. However, at times palatalisation occur sporadicly, thence one mark it with the Cyrillic "ь" or a Latin "ȷ" after the affected consonant.

Phonemes in brackets exist as allophones only.

Orthography
Mirskya, or мьıpсκя, is a Slavic-derived language, and it would be stupid not to use a Cyrillic script. However, for the reader's comfort, I'll provide an additional transcription with all phrases. The Mirskyan Cyrillic alphabet is known by the name κypиллицɴс eжәдava (kyrıllıṡıs etsedava). The alphabet is a heavily modified Cyrillic alphabet, with many introduced letters.

Notate Bene
 * 1) The grapheme "њ" is a ligature of the letter "н" and the palatalisation marker "ь".
 * 2) The grapheme "љ" is a ligature of the letter "л" and the palatalisation marker "ь".
 * 3) May also be written "q" when in initial miniscule form.
 * 4) These are not graphemes, nor consonant clusters, but digraphs.
 * 5) These are not graphemes, nor consonant clusters, but digraphs.

Vowels
The representation of Mirskya's vowels. The vowels are the main initialiserс of palatalisation, where front vowels cause palatal consonant phonemes.