Ma notation
Alphabet
Features
Sound groups:
- nasal = 2
- nasal + plosive = 8
- nasal + plosive + fricative = 16
Until
- 11, the Latin symbols have the value of the IPA, the symbols are pronounced similar in several languages
- 15,
- even positions are voiceless and uneven are voiced
- each group of 4 starts coronal
List
base 2
- N 0 NASAL - CORONAL Bilabial_nasal
- M 1 NASAL - LABIAL Alveolar_nasal (Voiced)
extra for base 4
- K 2 PLOSIVE - DORSAL velar plosive Voiceless velar plosive
- G 3 PLOSIVE - DORSAL velar plosive Voiced velar plosive
extra for base 8
- T 4 PLOSIVE - CORONAL alveolar plosive Voiceless alveolar plosive
- D 5 PLOSIVE - CORONAL alveolar plosive Voiced alveolar plosive
- P 6 PLOSIVE - LABIAL bilabial plosive Voiceless bilabial plosive
- B 7 PLOSIVE - LABIAL bilabial plosive Voiced bilabial plosive
extra for base 12
- S 8 FRICATIVE - CORONAL alveolar sibilant Voiceless alveolar sibilant
- Z 9 FRICATIVE - CORONAL alveolar sibilant Voiced alveolar sibilant
- F 10 FRICATIVE - LABIAL labiodental fricative Voiceless labiodental fricative
- V 11 FRICATIVE - LABIAL labiodental fricative Voiced labiodental fricative
extra for base 16
- Q 12 ʃ FRICATIVE - CORONAL palato-alveolar sibilant Voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant
- Y 13 ʒ FRICATIVE - CORONAL palato-alveolar sibilant Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant
- C 14 ç FRICATIVE - DORSAL palatal fricative Voiceless palatal fricative
- J 15 APPROX (ʝ FRICATIVE) - DORSAL palatal approximant Voiced palatal approximant
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- X 16 FRICATIVE - DORSAL Voiceless_velar_fricative
- H 17 FRICATIVE - LARYNGEAL
- R 18 TRILL - CORONAL Alveolar_trill
- L 19 LATERAL-APPROX - CORONAL
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- A 0 front unrounded vowel Open front unrounded vowel
- U 1 back rounded vowel Close back rounded vowel
- E 2 front unrounded vowel Close-mid front unrounded vowel
- O 3 back rounded vowel Close-mid back rounded vowel
- I 4 front unrounded vowel Close front unrounded vowel
- Ü 5 front rounded vowel Close front rounded vowel
- Ö 6 ø front rounded vowel Close-mid front rounded vowel
- Ä 7 central unrounded vowel Open central unrounded vowel
- ə vowel Mid-central vowel