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 Voiceless_velar_plosive
• G 3 PLOSIVE - DORSAL Voiced_velar_plosive

extra for base 8

• T 4 PLOSIVE - CORONAL plosive Voiceless_alveolar plosive
• D 5 PLOSIVE - CORONAL Voiced_alveolar_plosive
• P 6 PLOSIVE - LABIAL Voiceless_bilabial_plosive
• B 7 PLOSIVE - LABIAL Voiced_bilabial_plosive

extra for base 12

• S 8 FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiceless_alveolar_sibilant
• Z 9 FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiced_alveolar_sibilant
• F 10 FRICATIVE - LABIAL Voiceless_labiodental_fricative
• V 11 FRICATIVE - LABIAL Voiced_labiodental_fricative

extra for base 16

• Q 12 ʃ FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiceless_palato-alveolar_sibilant
• Y 13 ʒ FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiced_palato-alveolar_sibilant
• C 14 ç FRICATIVE - DORSAL Voiceless_palatal_fricative
• J 15 APPROX (ʝ FRICATIVE) - DORSAL 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

• W 20 Voiced_labio-velar_approximant

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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