Mamarianese

Mamarianese is a language spoken by Mamarians, a kind of creatures who have permanently vibrating vocal cords. That leads to such feature: in their language there are only voiced consonants.

Mamarians live on a shore of a tropical island: this is probably the only region where they could have their cords moistened enough to vibrate 24/7. Yes, even while they are sleeping (however, the sound then is a little more quiet). If one would come to their lands, he/she would be astonished by the unstoppable humming; although Mamarians are totally used to it. Since they make sounds all the time, it's pretty hard for them to hide or to spy. Nevertheless, some of them are sneaky enough: so they came up with wearing multilayer light masks and putting some feathers and stuff in their vocal cavity to reduce humming. By the way, the place they produce sounds with is separated both from the nasal cavity and from the oral cavity. (Because... try to imagine yourself eating and pronouncing something at the same time; seems unpleasant, ain't it so?) During the ritual ceremonies (e.g., funerals) Mamarians also make themselves keep silent the same ways.

This is not a big project of mine, more of a funlang mixed with an experiments over phonetics :)

Consonants
NB: the sound [m] is a humming noise that Mamarians produce all the time, so it's arguable whether [m] is a phoneme here or not. Like, silence isn't a phoneme in any human language. But we have glottal stops and other things... Idk...

Phonotactics
Possible syllable shapes are V, CV, VC, CVC. So it's technically (C)V(C). If consonant pile into an accidental cluster, it is broken with the vowel [ə].

No diphtongs: if two vowels are standing right near each other, they are pronounced with a pause. But a pause is "filled" with "m"-humming sound by default. So it ends up being VmV.

Tones (level)

 * 1) High: ī, ūe, ū, ē, ōe, ō, (ē), āe, ā.
 * 2) Middle (standard).
 * 3) Low: a̱, e̱, i̱, o̱, u̱, y̱. i̱, u̱e, u̱, e̱, o̱e, o̱, (e̱), a̱e, a̱.

== Transliteration ==

Nouns
Usually noun roots begin with a consonant, end with a vowel. No grammatical gender or different noun classes.

Verbs
Usually verb roots begin with a consonant and end with a consonant.

Person+number suffixes: Tense prefixes:
 * past: ∅-;
 * present: zhu-

Syntax
Word order is usually VSO. Adjectives come after the modified nouns. Adverbs come right after what they modify. Alignment is ergative-absolutive

Aspects:
Use auxiliary verbs after the lexical ones.
 * Perfective Past: V(inf) + neg- / "smb have V-ed".