User:Mbartelsm/Muna

Typological sketch
Mostly isolating language with an active-stative fluid-S alignment and a dominant SOV word order with postpositions and preceding genitives.

Phonotactics
Syllables are minimally V and maximally CrVVK
 * Medial /ɾ/ can only go after a voiceless consonant and reduces to [l] after a fricative.
 * Coda /n/ and /s/ assimilate by place of articulation to the following consonant
 * Intersyllabic /ɾ.ɾ/ are fortitioned into /r./

Stress
It has a pitch-accent system that is mostly used to differentiate verbs from non-verbs.

Noun classes
The classification system can be divided into two kinds: absolute and relative. The absolute classes are defined by animacy and deal with non-person things. The relative classes are defined by social status and position and deal with people.

Verbs
Verbs agree with their agent (monovalent) or subject (multivalent) in noun class

Tense
There are two grammatical tenses that verbs inflect for: non-past and past

Other tenses can be expressed through serial verb constructions

Register
Register is divided in two parts, the register for the setting and the register for the addressee. The register for the setting somewhat follows this table: The register for the addressee depends on the familiarity with them, which is reflected on the verb agreement as per their classification into the noun classes.