Teutla

Teutla
Teutla
Pronunciation	[/'teu.tla/]
Created by	Nicolás Campi
Setting	Earth-like planet
Native speakers	Unknown (2009)
Language family	Cramarian Proto-Cramarian Teutla
Writing system	Latin

Teutla is a Cramarian language with a faintly mixed Nahuatl/Mayan touch. It was later to be superseded by another language Coalen, with a very similar motif and inspiration but different grammar and phonetics.

Phonology

Teutla notably preserves the alveolar/retroflex distinction for the sibilant, adding a palatal also.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental/Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Retroflex	Labio-Velar	Glottal
Stop	p b	t d	t͡ʃ ⟨ch⟩	k g	tʂ ⟨tx⟩
Fricative	f			x ⟨j⟩			h
Sibilant		s	ʃ ⟨sh⟩		ʂ ⟨x⟩
Nasal	m	n
Liquid		l r
Approximant						w ⟨hu⟩

Vowels

Five vowels are distinguished with their long and short versions.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i, iː ⟨i, ī⟩		u, uː ⟨u, ū⟩
Mid	e, eː ⟨e, ē⟩		o, oː ⟨o, ō⟩
Open		a, aː ⟨a, ā⟩

Morphosyntax

Nouns

Nouns only mark for ergative, absolutive (lack of marking and citation form) and construct. Appart from these, Teutla uses a number of postpositional suffixes to convey most other senses that could be covered by cases in other agglutinative languages. More important than case marking is the plural, which depends on the noun class and can also cover names other than plain plural, such as collective or "completive" and a "multative" (many instances of one same thing).

		she "man"	chac "ash"	jop "foot"
Singular	Ergative	sheum	chacum	jopum
	Absolutive	she	chac	jop
	Construct	shei	chaqui	jopi
Plural	Ergative	shetlum	chactum	joptum
	Absolutive	shetla	chactu	joptu
	Construct	shetlai	chactui	joptui

Plurals

Some plurals include a semantic distinction and can only be used with nouns of a class.

Plural	Form	IPA
inanimate concrete	-tu	[tu]
inanimate abstract	-neh	[neʰ]
animate	-tla	[tɬa]

Some plurals can be used with either.

Plural	Form	IPA	Meaning
completive	-tash	[taʂ]	All X
multative	-nech	[net͡ʃ]	A lot of X

Example texts

Sample:

shetash huaccan | chacnech ijopnej īxnen.

/ˈʃetaʃ ˈwakkan | ˈt͡ʃaknet͡ʃ iˈxopnex ˈiːʂnen/

All men are big | A lot of ashes cover his feet