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Revision as of 22:56, 20 November 2017
Tigol/Proto-Tigol-English lexicon
Swadesh list
| Tigol/Proto-Tigol | |
|---|---|
| θensārimem | |
| Pronunciation | [/θensaːrimem/] |
| Created by | IlL |
| Setting | Hussmauch |
| Extinct | 220 v.T. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qth |
Tigol/Proto-Tigol is an ancient Talmic language and the ancestor of most living Talmic languages, including Eevo, Nurian and Bênôcian. It is inspired by Proto-Celtic, Latin and Welsh. Important texts in Thensarian include ancient Talmic prose myths and some early scientific texts.
Todo
- "Talma" is from what language? Sounds Clofabic or Talmic
- Make Proto-Talmic > Thensarian vowel changes mirror Pre-Celtic > Proto-Celtic changes
- Andaegōr = a male name
- Antryδēs = a place name
- Boerīginā = a female name
- sȝermā = ???
Background
- See also: Proto-Talmic.
Phonology
Consonants
Tigol/Proto-Tigol used 18 consonants (only two more than Phormatolidin).
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Radical | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | [ŋ] | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | t /t/ | c /k/ | [ʡ] | ||||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | φ /φ/ | θ /θ/ | s /s/ | ħ /ħ/ | h /h/ | ||
| voiced | δ /ð/ | [z] | ȝ /ʕ/ | |||||
| Trill | r /r/ | |||||||
| Approximant | v /ʋ/ | l /l/ | j /j/ | |||||
- Notes
- Voiceless plosives /p t k/ are lightly aspirated in syllable onsets but are unaspirated after /s/. They're always unaspirated in certain areas.
- [ŋ] occurs as an allophone of /n/ before velars /k, g/.
- /r/ is an alveolar trill [r] or tap [ɾ].
- /l/ is dental [l̪].
- [z] occurs as an allophone of /s/ in /sb, sd, sg/.
- /ʕ/ is either a radical plosive [ʡ] or a radical approximant [ʕ]. The first realization is more common word-initially.
Vowels
Tigol/Proto-Tigol had the following monophthongs:
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i /i/ | ī /iː/ | u /u/ | ū /uː/ | ||
| Mid | e /ɛ/ | ē /eː/ | o /ɔ/ | ō /oː/ | ||
| Open | a /a/ | ā /aː/ | ||||
The diphthongs are ae ao ei eo iu oe ui.
Stress
Stress is word-initial, ignoring some unstressed prefixes such as pronominal object prefixes.
Phonotactics
Some allowed clusters
- R = resonant X = obstruent
- Clusters allowed word-initially are in bold.
Geminates
- mm nn ll rr φφ tt cc ss θθ
RR
- mn mr nl nv lm ln lv rl rm rn rv vl vr
RX
- mφ ms nt nθ ns nc nħ
- mb nd nδ ng nȝ
- lφ lb lt ld ls lc lg lȝ lħ
- rφ rb rt rd rs rθ rδ rc rg rȝ rħ
XR
- φn bn tn θn cn gn ȝn ħn
- sm sn sl sr sv
- φl bl tl dl cl gl ȝl ħl
- φr br tr dr θr δr cr gr ȝr ħr
XX
- sφ st sc sȝ sb sd sg
- cs ct ħs ħt
XXR
- sφr str scl scr sȝl sȝr
Orthography
Alphabetical order: R D I A Ħ Φ L M G C H B S V O J Ȝ Δ Y T N Θ E U
Morphology
- Main article: Thensarian/Morphology
Syntax
Like many of its descendants, Thensarian is almost completely head-initial (except for compounds).
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Sequences of tenses are important in Thensarian grammar. The mood of a verb sometimes serves the same functions of subordinating conjunctions in English such as if. Sometimes it is erroneously said that Thensarian has no word for if; conjunctions meaning "if" exist (φīs, etc.) but they are not mandatory.