Thoschian

Thoschian /θoʃˑɪən/ is the main language of easternmost Herooku. Created for the fantasy world of Grundet by juhhmi.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m m			n n		nj ɲ	ng ŋ
Plosive	p b p b			t d t d		tj dj c ɟ	k g k g	q q	' ʔ
Fricative		f v f v	th dh θ ð	s z s z	sch zj ʃ ʒ	h j ç ʝ	ch x	hq χ	h h
Trill				r r				rq ʀ
Lateral app.				l l

• Fricatives: /h/ appears with back vowels and /ç/ with front vowels.
• Word final voiced consonants are reduced into voiceless unless followed by a word beginning with another voiced consonant: lag tesch /lak teʃ/ vs. lag durni /lag durni/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close		ni ɨ	u u
Near-Close	i ɪ		u ʊ
Close-Mid	no ø		o o
Mid	e e	e/o ə
Open-mid			a o ʌ ɔ
Near-open		a ɐ
Open	na a		a ɑ

• Unstressed reduction of vowels.
• Stressed a is qento "deep" /ɑ/ after all velar, uvular and glottal consonants and after voiced consonants (except for d) and miteh "shallow" /ʌ/ after the rest of the voiceless consonants. Similarly with o, the pronunciation varies between "deep" /ɔ/ and "shallow" /o/.

Orthography

Native

Influence from both Goldhearts and Ancient Kher Empire led to the birth of a combination of alphabet and syllabary systems derived from Rinapri logographs and nowadays written from right to left.

Romanization

• Trigraphs written with or without the c: kch /kx/, sch /ʃ/
  • Marked, if matters: lashe /lʌsˈçe/ (sprinkle; vernacularly [ˈlʌ.ɕˑe]) vs. lasche /ˈlʌ.ʃe/ (conviction)
• Former nasals: no /ø/, ni /ɨ/, na /a/

Grammar

Characteristic to an East-Herookuan language: