Nāmaς

Introduction
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Nāmaς, ([ˈnaːm.as], translates as "name, noun, meaning or thing"), or Sēnha Namēa [ˈsɛː.ŋa nam.ˈɛːa] "'Namian' language" - is a mixed constructed a priori/ a posteriori language. It draws inspiration from mainly the Indo-European branch, yet makes a decisive stance to preserve artificial features. For the sake of simplicity I suppose it could be called the Namian language, or whatever. Doesn't really matter.

Since there is a tendency in Nāmaς to blend characteristics of both artificial and natural languages, a rather unholy mixture has arisen, for example:

It is a fusional language, like its predecessors Latin, Sanskrit, Greek and Germanic - yet displays the highly unnatural ergative-accusativ alignment, or tripartite, - which is rarely seen outside conlanging.

Concerning the vocabulary, both words derived from Indo-European stems, as well as complete a priori words, appear; such as "dhrȳa" - tree, from Indo-European *dóru, and the word for heaven, "iāmnas" - from... me.

Other than that, other, rather unique features are included, such as: Plus an extremely constructed characteristic:
 * Phonemic and manipulated stress.
 * Progressive metaphony.
 * Partial regressive metaphony.
 * Consonant harmony, based upon voicedness.
 * Distinguished transitivity

Phonology
The following table portraits Nāmaς' phonetic inventory of consonants, as well as the ortographic representation. All consonants may be geminated, which is phonemic, and represented by doubling by the grapheme. All plosive consonants, as well as the alveolar trill [r] and the labiodental fricatives [v-f], have allophonical in nucleus position intervocally. These are either pure fricatives, or plosives with a fricate release. However, both [r] and [v-f] become approximants. In addition to these, there's a multitude of digraphs with corresponding affricates. It is important to note that the four digraphs /pt/, /vt/, /kt/, and /jt/ symbolise consonant clusters with an affricate onset.

Consonant Assimilation
Nāmaς possesses a progressive consonant assimilation word-internally, based upon voicedness.

The consequence is that a consonant, a cluster, or an affricate, is pronounced differently, depending on whether it is preceded by a voiced or voiceless consonant. There are exceptions to this rule, since the alveolar trill [r] and the retroflex tap [ɽ] do not differ between voicedness.

The nasal stops are affected quite differently, with a complete nasalisation of the preceding vowel - and loss of the stop - if the initial or first consonant is voiced. However, nasals are perceived as neutral in nature, and does therefore not affect voiceless nor voiced phonemes.

Examples

Sandrā - [san.ˈtraː], not pronounced [san.ˈ d raː] - "moon"

Dāntis - [ˈdãːd.ɪz], not pronounced ['ˈdaː nt .ɪ s ] - "tooth"

Āsvyas - [ˈaːs.fʃas], yet again, not pronounced ''[ˈaːs. vʒ as]'' - "he owns"

Vowels
The representation of Nāmaς' vowels.

Translation
Here is small entrée, just to keep the you hanging.

Our Father
Pātranon, dya stai iāmnassa.

Mēgana vēra nāmaς dei.

Aeyīesya dei ēranta.

Vāranta nōmoi dei, iāmnassa

Amsām ēomassa.

Lāvomnon denēo dānos addenós

Ia siēra vēromo nos,

Amsām siēramdhai dya āsvyeron vēroi sāmes;

Ia nai vyam prōba,

Sim symnārnos hēnta jtōssa.

Dēma aeyīam hai dei, ia māgam, ia sāhram, hā ēvissa.

Amīn.