Tłkaw
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Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Native speakers | 6 million (13b0dd) |
Lakovic
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Tłkaw (!e Zum) is a Lakovic language spoken by the !Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by beatboxing, Vietnamese and Southern American English.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.
Implosives: ɓ ɗ ᶑ ʄ
Vowels
Triphthongs: æjə ejə ɪjə ɛjɔ
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
No mutations (it's not a Talmic language)
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Poetry
zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd
where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem