Ma notation

Alphabet

Features

Sound groups:

• nasal = 2
• nasal + plosive = 8
• nasal + plosive + fricative = 16

Until

• 15, even positions are voiceless and uneven are voiced
• 12, the Latin symbols have the value of the IPA, the symbols are pronounced similar in several languages

List

base 2

• N 0 NASAL - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilabial_nasal
• M 1 NASAL - LABIAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_nasal (Voiced)

extra for base 4

• K 2 PLOSIVE - DORSAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_plosive
• G 3 PLOSIVE - DORSAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_plosive

extra for base 8

• T 4 PLOSIVE - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_plosive
• D 5 PLOSIVE - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_plosive
• P 6 PLOSIVE - LABIAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_plosive
• B 7 PLOSIVE - LABIAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_bilabial_plosive

extra for base 12

• S 8 FRICATIVE - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_sibilant
• Z 9 FRICATIVE - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_sibilant
• F 10 FRICATIVE - LABIAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_labiodental_fricative
• V 11 FRICATIVE - LABIAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_labiodental_fricative

extra for base 16

• Q 12 ʃ FRICATIVE - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_palato-alveolar_sibilant
• Y 13 ʒ FRICATIVE - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palato-alveolar_sibilant
• C 14 ç FRICATIVE - DORSAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_palatal_fricative
• J 15 APPROX (ʝ FRICATIVE) - DORSAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant

????

• X 16 FRICATIVE - DORSAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
• H 17 FRICATIVE - LARYNGEAL

• R 18 TRILL - CORONAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_trill
• L 19 LATERAL-APPROX - CORONAL

• W 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_labio-velar_approximant

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• A 0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel
• U 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel
• E 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel
• O 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel
• I 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel
• Ü 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_rounded_vowel
• Ö 6 ø http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel
• Ä 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_central_unrounded_vowel
• ə http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-central_vowel