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(Created page with " Takkenit language or Takkenkikle [ˈtɑ.kːən.ˌkik.lə] - is a language, spoken in a mesolithic Eastern European plains (circa 6000-7000 BCE) on the territories of modern N...") |
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Takkenit has never been a written language, its stories and songs were transfered orally from generation to generation until the extinction of the language. I use Latin script with some additional letters (''ŋ'' and sometimes also ''ə'') to fully cover the phonology of Takkenit, which is fairly simple. | Takkenit has never been a written language, its stories and songs were transfered orally from generation to generation until the extinction of the language. I use Latin script with some additional letters (''ŋ'' and sometimes also ''ə'') to fully cover the phonology of Takkenit, which is fairly simple. | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The Takkenit consonant inventory is very simple. The most interesting feature of it is a complete lack of any fricatives. Geminated consonants, which are represented with double letters (like '''tt''', or '''kk''') can be analyzed as a sequence of two same sounds. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center | |||
! | |||
! Labial | |||
! Denti-Alveolar | |||
! Palatal | |||
! Velar | |||
|- | |||
! Nasal | |||
| m | |||
| n | |||
| | |||
| ŋ | |||
|- | |||
! Plosive | |||
| p | |||
| t | |||
| | |||
| k | |||
|- | |||
! Approximant | |||
| (w) | |||
| l | |||
| j | |||
| w | |||
|- | |||
! Trill | |||
| | |||
| r | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== |