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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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! colspan="2"| | |||
! | Labial | |||
! | Dental | |||
! | Retroflex | |||
! | Palatal | |||
! | Velar | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | Nasal | |||
| '''m''' /m/ | |||
| '''n''' /n̪/ | |||
| '''ṇ''' /ɳ/ | |||
| '''ny''' /ɲ/ | |||
| [ŋ] | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" |Plosive | |||
| '''p''' /p~b/ | |||
| '''t''' /t̪~d̪/ | |||
| '''ṭ''' /ʈ~ɖ/ | |||
| | |||
| '''c''' /k~g~x/ | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" |Trill/Flap | |||
| | |||
| '''r''' /ɾ~r/ | |||
| | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" |Approximant | |||
| '''v''' /ʋ/ | |||
| '''l''' /l̪/ | |||
| '''ḷ''' /ɭ/ | |||
| '''j''' /j/ | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
/a e i o u æ ø y/ {{angbr|''a e i o u ö ü''}} | /a e i o u æ ø y/ {{angbr|''a e i o u ö ü''}} | ||
Revision as of 22:12, 25 September 2016
A priori language ([tiŋkatkiramai] 'mother language') is a language inspired aesthetically by Finnish and Tamil. It is spoken by a tribe of dwarves in the Tolkienian fantasy world of Rotunu.
Numbers: 1: aintu
Introduction
Ypyḷḷityyn = a place name?
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n̪/ | ṇ /ɳ/ | ny /ɲ/ | [ŋ] | |
| Plosive | p /p~b/ | t /t̪~d̪/ | ṭ /ʈ~ɖ/ | c /k~g~x/ | ||
| Trill/Flap | r /ɾ~r/ | |||||
| Approximant | v /ʋ/ | l /l̪/ | ḷ /ɭ/ | j /j/ | ||
Vowels
/a e i o u æ ø y/ ⟨a e i o u ö ü⟩
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
- tinkaTu
- tinkaTku
- tinkaTuur
- tinkaTuva
- tinkaTurru
- tinkaTuta
- tinkaTurpa
- tinkaTutana
- tinkaTunen
- tinkaTuttu
- tinkaTuval
Verbs
The verbal noun ends in -ei and is the citation form. For example, iramei means "speaking" or "to speak"; karwaḷei means "worshipping" or "to worship".