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===Vowels===
===Vowels===
i i: u u: ə ə: a a: ai au ei ou ie uo {{angbr|''i ī u ū ə ə̄ a ā ai au ei ou ie uo''}}
/i u ə əː a ai au ei ou ie uo/ {{angbr|''i ī u ū ə ə̄ a ā ai au ei ou ie uo''}}
 
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
===Prosody===
===Prosody===

Revision as of 19:45, 20 July 2016

Tlu is an ancient Mustlup language inspired by my oldest draft of Proto-Talmic.

Phonology

Consonants

/m n ɳ ɲ ŋ p t tɬ ʈ c k q ʔ b d dɮ ɖ ɟ g f s̠ ɬ x h z̠ ɮ ʋ l ɭ j/ m n ṇ ñ ŋ p t ƛ ṭ ť k q ʔ b d λ ḍ ď g f s σ ch h z ʒ v l ḷ j

Vowels

/i iː u uː ə əː a aː ai au ei ou ie uo/ i ī u ū ə ə̄ a ā ai au ei ou ie uo

Orthography

Prosody

Stress

Stress falls on the first heavy (CV̄, CVV or CVC) syllable, if it is not the final syllable. If no syllables are long, the first syllable is stressed.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Numerals

Base-12.

  • 1: seiďu /ˈseiɟu/
  • 2: bli /bli/
  • 3: sqā /sqaː/
  • 4: māvuo /ˈmaːʋuo/
  • 5: paiku /ˈpaiku/
  • 6: ə̄ƛich /ˈəːtɬix/
  • 7: zətə̄ /ˈzətəː/
  • 8: baŋud /ˈbaŋud/
  • 9: ďavuň /ˈɟaʋuɲ/
  • 10: fqāchṭī /ˈfqaːxʈiː/
  • 11: bə̄zie /ˈbəːzie/
  • 12: zie /zie/

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources