Armimez

Armimez is a Farric language brought to Syvat by Wñas merchants who landed in the Eastern Shores. Since its arrival, Armimez has gained significant popularity among Noraddem sailors who have spread it throughout ports across the continent. Though not a trade language, Armimez is considered a common secondary language for private and informal conversations.
Armimez is unique upon Syvat because it lacks bilabial consonants and rounded vowels, thanks to the less-flexible upper lips of its native Wñasn speakers. Non-native speakers tend to round many of the vowels when speaking the language, giving rise to a "dry-mouth" dialect that many Wñasn find humourous (as it sounds similar to the way their young — who have softer top lip ridges — speak). Most Wñasn keep these jokes private for fear they would be taken offensively by others.

Phonology

Consonants

• Nasal: m /ɱ/, n /n/, ñ (ng) /ŋ/
• Stops: t /t/, d /d/, k /k/, g /g/, ' /ʔ/
• Fricatives: f /f/, v /v/, s /s/, z /z/, š (sh) /ʃ/, ž (zh) /ʒ/, c /x/, x /ɣ/, h /h/
• Taps: w /ⱱ/, r /ɾ/
• Approximants: l /l/, j /j/

Vowels

• i /i/
• u /ɯ/
• a /ɐ/

Armimez vowels have a surprising degree of stability, with no known allophones. However, Armimex also has a phonetic extra-short schwa (/ə̆/) that appears within non-viable consonant clusters, which is typically unmarked, but may be transliterated with e.

Morphology

Plurality

Armimez only has singular and non-singular stages of plurality, with plurals inflecting nouns with -n. As with all Armimez words, if this would create a non-viable consonant cluster, an unmarked -/ə̆/- is inserted between the end of the root and the plural.