Tłkaw
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Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Native speakers | 6 million (13b0dd) |
Lakovic
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Tłkaw /!'zu:m/ (g!e Zum; g!e is related to Naeng tger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by beatboxing, Vietnamese and Southern American English.
!xu||xam!xai
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonic 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); should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs
Inflectional morphology:
- Feminine -a (-is > -əh > -a)
- Present tense bi- (from the agentive);
- Past: r infix participle
- Future and imperative: unmarked form
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