Atlamak

Atlamak is an international auxiliary language started by Claus [...]-Günkel from Germany. He published it on 23 November 2024 in Berlin during the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik.

Each Atlamak word is inviolable just like a kanji; the only affix is the suffix -o, which changes an adjective into an adverb, e.g. sol (= one, alone) and solo (= sole, only).

a [a]; b [b]; c [tʃ]; d [d]; e [e]; f [f]; g [g]; h [h]; i [i], [ij] between consonants and vowels, [j] in "sio" and "xio"; j [ʒ]; k [k]; l [l]; m [m]; n [n], [ŋ] before "g", "k", "q" or "x", [m] before "b" or "p"; o [o]; p [p]; q [kw]; r [ʁ], [r] or [ɾ]; s [s]; t [t]; u [u]; v [v]; w [w]; x [ks]; y a) [j] before/after a vowel, forming the only diphthongs ay, ey, oy, uy, b) [y] between consonants or at word boundaries without direct vowel contact; z [z]. An epenthetic murmur like [ə] or [ɯ] may, for ease of articulation, be permitted between consonants, depending on the speaker. Orthographically, this remains generic.

In standard phonetic pronunciation, the grapheme y as a vowel sound corresponds to the rounded front high vowel [y]. Since this sound is phonemically absent for more than half of the world's population, a pronunciation similar to [y] or [i] is acceptable as an approximate realization, especially in the early stages of learning. The sound [y] can be articulated by pronouncing "i" and simultaneously rounding the lips as if for "u".

The accent is typically paroxytonic (on the penultimate syllable). Consonant doubling and grouping are permitted. The apostrophe is used arbitrarily for abbreviation in artistic expression.