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'''Tizian''' is a modern Naquic language. It has more Basque than Naquian does. While phonologically conservative compared to e.g. [[Xaetjeon]], its grammar has changed greatly from Naquian.
'''Tizian''' is an Elvish language in Tsayfuan's fantasy setting. I was inspired by Burmese and Welsh.


keau, tix, nax, tsu, tzalis, huela,  
Non-traditional alliteration schemes are used in modern poetry and in whimsical, quasi-Hofstadterian "riddle poems".
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg " style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|+ '''Tizian consonants'''
! colspan="2"|
! | Labial
! | Dental
! | Alveolar
! | Palatal
! | Velar
! | Labiovelar
! | Glottal
|-
! colspan="2" | Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
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| '''n''' /n/
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|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! | <small>plain</small>
| '''p''' /p/
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| '''t''' /t/
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| '''k''' /k/
| '''qu''' /kʷ/
| '''h''' /ʔ/
|-
! | <small>ejective</small>
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| '''th''' /tʼ/
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| '''ch''' /kʼ/
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|-
! rowspan="2" | Affricate
! | <small>voiceless</small>
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| '''tz''' /ts̻/
| '''ts''' /ts̺/
| '''tx''' /tʃ/
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|-
! | <small>ejective</small>
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| '''tzh''' /ts̻ʼ/
| '''tsh''' /ts̺ʼ/
| '''txh''' /tʃʼ/
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|-
! colspan="2" |Fricative
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| '''z''' /s̻/
| '''s''' /s̺/
| '''x''' /ʃ/
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|-
! colspan="2" |Liquid
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| '''l''' /l/
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|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
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| '''y''' /j/
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| '''hu, u''' /w/
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|}


===Vowels===
[[Category:Languages]]
e > a > o > u before nasal + C
[[Category:Conlangs]]
 
prestopped nasals and laterals?
 
ā ē ī ó ū > oa ea i u u
[[Category:Naquic languages]][[Category:Quihum languages]]

Latest revision as of 12:40, 20 April 2023

Tizian is an Elvish language in Tsayfuan's fantasy setting. I was inspired by Burmese and Welsh.

Non-traditional alliteration schemes are used in modern poetry and in whimsical, quasi-Hofstadterian "riddle poems".

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