Phonology

Alphabet

Twenty letters, each with exactly one sound. No digraphs, no diacritics.

c is always the sound of chai, church — as in ca (tea), cok (many), keci (small). Never k, never s. This follows Indonesian, Malay, Hausa and Somali, which all write that sound with a plain c. (Until September 2, 2026 it was written ch; the digraph was dropped because it was the alphabet’s one exception to “one letter, one sound”.)

y is always a consonant glide (ya, yu), never a vowel.

One letter, one sound

There are no silent letters, no letters that change value by position, and no letter that can be read two ways. A word is pronounced exactly as it is written, and written exactly as it is pronounced.

Syllable shape

Syllables stay simple: never more than two consonants in a row, and none of the tongue-twisters other languages allow (strengths, vzglyad). If you can say “banana” and “taksi”, you can say anything in Amadunia.

Two-consonant sequences that occur in current vocabulary:

• tr — tri (3)
• ks — taksi (taxi), across the syllable break tak-si
• kt — doktor, across the syllable break dok-tor
• lm — salam, across the syllable break sa-lam
• rk — porke (why), market, across the syllable break por-ke
• rs — mersi (thank you), across the syllable break mer-si
• rd — pardon, across the syllable break par-don
• ns — insan (person), across the syllable break in-san
• pl — plis (please), word-initial like tr
• mb — ambil (to take), across the syllable break am-bil
• nd — anda (to walk), across the syllable break an-da
• sk — eski (old), across the syllable break es-ki

Vowel sequences

Observed in current vocabulary:

Open questions

• Whether stress is fixed (and if so, on which syllable) is not yet decided.
• Whether the two-consonant sequences above are the complete permitted set, or merely the ones used so far, is not yet decided.