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'''Tumachee'''(''yûkka tûmaḩ''; <small>Tumachee:</small> [[Help:IPA|[ʝúkʲɑ dúmɑɧ]]]) is a Tumachic language spoken by the Tumachee people in the fictional He-who-uses-the-loom River Basin(Tumachee: ''Kumâḩâ Keḩôskibân'') and the coast of the He-who-irrigates Lake(''Kumâziḩâ Kegzînkibân'') of the North-western United States. It is the sole member of the Tumachic language family alongside Gzuwê. | '''Tumachee'''(''yûkka tûmaḩ''; <small>Tumachee:</small> [[Help:IPA|[ʝúkʲɑ dúmɑɧ]]]) is a Tumachic language spoken by the Tumachee people in the fictional He-who-uses-the-loom River Basin(Tumachee: ''Kumâḩâ Keḩôskibân'') and the coast of the He-who-irrigates Lake(''Kumâziḩâ Kegzînkibân'') of the North-western United States. It is the sole member of the Tumachic language family alongside Gzuwê. | ||
Tumachee is also an official language of the Sleeping Bull Confederacy, as the first, fifth and twentieth Sleeping Bulls were all Tumachee native or L2 speakers. | |||
It is a highly agglutinative language with a very rare [[w:Word order|verb-object-subject]] basic word order and a (not so rare)noun-adjective order. The language is also very context-reliant, where sentences can change meaning based on the context of the conversation. | It is a highly agglutinative language with a very rare [[w:Word order|verb-object-subject]] basic word order and a (not so rare)noun-adjective order. The language is also very context-reliant, where sentences can change meaning based on the context of the conversation. | ||
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Tumachee uses the [[w:Latin script|Latin alphabet]], with some unique letters, notably circumflex vowels(âêîôû) and the cedilla h(ḩ), with the new letters phonetically representing high tone and vowels and the voiceless palato-velar fricative respectively. | Tumachee uses the [[w:Latin script|Latin alphabet]], with some unique letters, notably circumflex vowels(âêîôû) and the cedilla h(ḩ), with the new letters phonetically representing high tone and vowels and the voiceless palato-velar fricative respectively. | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||
| Aa<br> | | Aa<br>[ɑ]|| Ââ<br>[ɑ́] || Bb<br>[b][p] || Kk<br>[k] || Dd<br>[d][t]|| Ee<br>[e] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Êê<br> | | Êê<br>[é]|| Gg<br>[g][k] || Hh<br>[ɦ] || Ḩḩ<br>[ɧ] || Ii<br>[i] || Îî<br>[í] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Ll<br>[l] || Mm<br>[m] || Nn<br>[n] || Oo<br>[ɔ] || Ôô<br>[ɔ́] || Pp<br>[p] | | Ll<br>[l] || Mm<br>[m] || Nn<br>[n] || Oo<br>[ɔ] || Ôô<br>[ɔ́] || Pp<br>[p] | ||