Tłkaw
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Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Native speakers | 6 million (13b0dd) |
Lakovic
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Tłkaw /!'zu:m/ (g!e Zum; g!e is related to Naeng tger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by beatboxing, Vietnamese and Southern American English.
!xu||xam!xai
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonic clicks, however.
Implosives: ɓ ɗ ᶑ ʄ
Vowels
Triphthongs: æjə ejə ɪjə ɛjɔ
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
No mutations (it's not a Talmic language); should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not
Feminine -a (-is > -əh > -a)
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Poetry
zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd
where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem