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| '''Cuam''' (''shlản Củam'') is an [[Verse:Irta|Irtan]] Southeast Asian language in the [[Cuam-Flei]] family. Its loanwards are mainly from Middle Chinese, Mon-Khmer and [[Far East Semitic]]; more recently it has borrowed from French and modern Chinese languages. Cuam is official in Cuamland (''Fâimh doill-Chủam''). | | '''Cuam''' (''shlản Củam'') is inspired by Irish, Thai and Hmong. |
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| Cuam is inspired by Irish, Thai and Hmong.
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| Cuam-Flei is believed to have come from Tricin, and have undergone tonogenesis after incorporation in the Southeast Asian sprachbund. Some linguists connect the name Cuam to the PIE root *ķoy-m- via an old substrate language closely related to [[Azalic]], which would make it cognate with the word "home".
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| ==Phonology== | | ==Phonology== |
| The romanization in this article was invented by Dómhnail Ó Loingsigh.
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| Initials: all Irish single consonants plus prenasalized stops and sh(n/l/r)-; allow br dr gr cr bl dl gl cl; p- fl- fr- only occurs in borrowings; stops are +asp/-asp like in Scottish Gaelic | | Initials: all Irish single consonants plus prenasalized stops and sh(n/l/r)-; allow br dr gr cr bl dl gl cl; p- fl- fr- only occurs in borrowings; stops are +asp/-asp like in Scottish Gaelic |
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