{{Script
| script = Luyíma alphabet
| native = ''luyíma'', ''luyímà vuuyin zayxa''
| sample = 
| type = alphabet
| languages = [[Dendana/Vuuyin_Zayxa|Vuuyin Zayxa]]
| date = 1300 - 1500 YP
| parent = [[Oryziform]]  [[Ndak syllabary]]   [[Fáralo alphabet]]   [[Luyíma alphabet]]
| num-char = 39
| direction = left-to-right
| author = [[User:Dendana|dendana]]
}}
{{Article}}

The '''Luyíma alphabet''' is an alphabet which was originally invented for writing the [[Vuuyin Zayxa]] language.

==Script==

==Origins of the glyphs==


[[Category:Writing]]

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== Phoneme inventory ==

=== Consonants ===

{| {{bluetable|lightbluebg c}}
|-
! !! labial || dental || alveolar || palatal ||   velar  
|-
! nasal
| m || n || || ||
|-
! plain plosive
| p || t || || || k
|-
! nasal-trigger plosive
| Np || Nt || || || Nk
|-
! aspirated plosive
| pʰ || tʰ || || || kʰ
|-
! plain continuant
| f || || s || ʃ || x
|-
! nasal-trigger continuant
| Nʋ || || Nz || ||
|-
! voiced continuant
| ʋ || l || z || j ||
|-
|}

* Nasal-trigger consonants are phonetically identical to their non-nasal-trigger correspondents, but trigger nasalization of a preceding vowel, even if that vowel is part of another word (this does not apply across clause boundaries, however). Additionally, all nasals automatically trigger nasalization of a preceding vowel.
* All labial, dental, and alveolar consonants have palatalized allophones after a front vowel within words.
* Plain and nasal-trigger stops are voiced intervocalically within words.

Orthographically, the consonants will be represented as follows:

{| {{bluetable|lightbluebg c}}
|-
! !! labial || dental || alveolar || palatal ||   velar  
|-
! nasal
| m || n || || ||
|-
! plain plosive
| p || t || || || k
|-
! nasal-trigger plosive
| p || t || || || k
|-
! aspirated plosive
| ph || th || || || kh
|-
! plain continuant
| f || || s || x || h
|-
! nasal-trigger continuant
| v || || z || ||
|-
! voiced continuant
| v || l || z || y ||
|-
|}

* In the dictionary and when a word is given alone, nasal-trigger plosives and continuants are notated with a preceding <n> word-initially.

=== Vowels ===

{| {{bluetable|lightbluebg c}}
|-
! !! front !! central !! back
|-
! high
| i ḭ || ɨ̃ ɨ̰̃ || u ṵ
|-
! mid
| e ḛ || || o o̰
|-
! low
| ɛ̃ ɛ̰̃ || a a̰ || ɔ̃ ɔ̰̃
|-
|}

* Tense-lax allophony: a,e,i,o,u and their laryngeal counterparts > ǝ,ɛ,ɩ,ɔ,ʊ / unstressed
* Nasalization: before a nasal-trigger consonant or a nasal consonant, a,e,i,o,u and their laryngeal counterparts > ɔ̃,ɛ̃,ɨ̃,ɔ̃,ɨ̃
* Additionally, unstressed /a/ and /a̰/ > ɨ̃ ɨ̰̃ before a nasal-trigger or nasal consonant.

Orthographically, the vowels will be represented as follows:

{| {{bluetable|lightbluebg c}}
|-
! !! front !! central !! back
|-
! high
| i iq || in inq || u uq
|-
! mid
| e eq || || o oq
|-
! low
| en enq || a aq || on onq
|-
|}

However, since the vowels are nasalized by default before a nasal, the <n> will not be written before a nasal.

=== Tones and Stress ===
* Low, high? High implies stress, low can imply stress
* how do we indicate all this in the orthography?
* Allophony based on phonation and _V/_C/_#

{| {{bluetable|lightbluebg c}}
|-
! !! high stressed <á> !! low stressed <â> !! mid unstressed <a> !! low unstressed <à>
|-
! modal other
| 44 || 22 || 3 || 21
|-
! modal prevocalic
| 5 || 1 || 3 || 1
|-
! laryngeal other
| 34 || 23 || 23 || 21
|-
! laryngeal prevocalic
| 5 || 1 || 3 || 1
|-
|}

==Phonotactics==
The maximum syllable is '''(C)V(C)''', where the initial consonant can be any consonant, and the final consonant is restricted to /j/ or /ʋ/. Syllables with low tone, nasalization, and/or laryngeal quality seldom have a coda.

==Prosody==

Dendana/Vuuyin Zayxa/Phonology

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