Namosis(南語), also known as Nâm-Ngyú, Nâm-Ngin and Tăn-Wá, which is a analytical language with tone belong to Sino-Tibetan. The writing system of Namosis, chinese characters, is a logogram, which can express both pronunciation and meaning. Many a character has two different pronunciation called Mĕm-Tók(文讀) and Pŏk-Tók(白讀), used respectively for written and oral Namosis.
History
thousands ages before, ancient human beings left in the southeastern coast of Eurasia. Then, about twenty centruies B.C., Nam-yud, a confederation country, estublished with slavery society. Accordingto research, the original Sino-Tibetan was brought here from Yellow River Basin with Nam-yud people's migration.developed in tribes, the original Sino-Tebatan gradually became several similar languages. In this case, people could not comunicate in hte next few handred years until the time when Tsi Moae-bok, the king of Nam-yud, unified trides into a feudal country in 1024 B.C.,and ancient Namosis formed with the only character, vocabularies and pronunciation. See more later...
Distribution and Classification
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Phonology
Sounds
Consonants
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Vowels
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Tones
Dialect districts | Tones' Name | ||||||||
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Dark level | Light level | Dark rising | Light rising | Dark departing | Light departing | Dark entering | Light entering | ||
Tones' Value | Heu-Kong Dialect | 44 | 24 | 53 | 31 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 2 |
Wa-lot Dialect | 45 | 242 | 53 | 42 | 33 | 21 | 5 | 3 | |
Saong-Yaong Dialect | 44 | 242 | 53 | 312 | 33 | 22 | 4 | 2 |