User:MIGUELbM/Muna v3.0

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial		Labiodental		Alveolar		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n
Plosive	p	b			t	d	k	g
Flap / tap						ɾ
Fricative			f		s		x
Approximant				ʋ		l			h

Vowels

	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	i ɨ u e̞ o̞ ä
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Phonotactics

Syllables are minimally V and maximally CrVVK

Syllable structure

Syllable
Onset	Medial	Nucleus	Coda
(C)	(r)	V (V)	(K)
Any consonant	/ɾ/	Any vowel Any diphthong	/n/ /s/ /ɾ/ /l/

• Medial /ɾ/ can only go after a voiceless consonant and reduces to [l] after a fricative.
• Coda /n/ and /s/ assimilate by place of articulation to the following consonant
• Intersyllabic /ɾ.ɾ/ are fortitioned into /r./

Stress

It has a pitch-accent system that is mostly used to differentiate verbs from non-verbs.

Grammar summary

Basic sentence structure is SOXV, or Subject Object Oblique Verb.

Clause types

Relative

Muna uses a gapping strategy with a participle marking in the verb

Subject

[late came-ptcp] girl-agt sad

The girl [who came late] is sad.

Direct object

I-agt rose-pat [kate-agt see-ptcp] girl to give

I gave a rose to the girl [that Kate saw].

Indirect object

John [I letter girl to write-ptcp] know

John knows the girl [I wrote a letter to].

Oblique

I found the rock [which the robbers had hit John over the head with].

I rock found

Genitive

The girl [whose father died] told me she was sad.

girl I tell

Obj of Comp

The first person [I can't run faster than] will win a million dollars.

first person million dollars win

Comparative

Muna uses an exceed type of comparative, in which a verb roughly meaning 'to exceed' is used with the two compared arguments.