Ancient Sohcahtoan

Ancient Sohcahtoan
fē sō-ktã-gū
Pronunciation	[ˈfeːsoːktəguː]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2023
Native to	Republic of Sohcahtoa
Language family	Altaic Japonic part. Ryukyuan Sohcahtoic Ancient Sohcahtoan
Early form	Proto-Sohcahtoic

Ancient Sohcahtoan is a Japonic language that is the precursor of Sohcahtoan. Nowadays, it is used for solely ceremonial purposes at festivals, and no one actually uses it in everyday speech. Although much of the language has been reconstructed from various works of literature in Ancient Sohcahtoan, some of the lexical base has been comparatively reconstructed from modern Sohcahtoan and some Ryukyuan languages.

Phonology

Orthography

Whereas modern Sohcahtoan uses the three Japanese scripts, Ancient Sohcahtoan was probably written using a rudimentary runic alphabet to represent the phonology. However, as the Japanese scripts began to heavily influence Sohcahtoan, the runes fell out of use in favour of Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, which led to vowel and consonant change, e.g. ʂ -> ʃ and the complete dropping of [ə](ã) and [u], the former turned into [eoː] and the latter into [ɯ].

Consonants

	Labial		Dental/ alveolar		Post- alveolar/ palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	p	b	t	d			k	ɡ		ʔ
Affricate			t͡s
Fricative	s	z	ʂ
Approximant						j
Lateral				l
Flap				ɾ

Vowels

	Front		Central	Back
Close	i			u (ɯ)
Close-mid	e			o
Open			a

All vowels in Ancient Sohcahtoan(except [i] and [) have elongated versions, those being ō([oː]), ā([aː]), ē([eː]) and ū([ɯː]).