Tłkaw
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Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Native speakers | 6 million (13b0dd) |
Lakovic
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Tłkaw /ˈ!̩.zu:m/ (dngē Zum /ŋ͡!ɜː zum/; ngē is related to Naeng tnger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by Hebrew, Nama, Zulu, and !Xóõ. It's in a sprachbund with Yacavestub and Wiobian.
!xu||xam!xai
human = ləkow
Clickhmoob relative?
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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Click | voiceless | pk /kʘ/, tk /k!/, tsk /kǀ/, tłk /ɡǁ/ | ||||||
voiced | bg /ŋʘ~ɡʘ/, dg /ŋ!~ɡ!/, dsg /ŋǀ~ɡǀ/, dłg /ŋǁ~ɡǁ/ | |||||||
Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | /ʔ-/ | |||
voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /ɡ/ | |||||
implosive | qb /ɓ/ | qd /ɗ/ | qg /ɠ/ | |||||
Fricative | s /s/, z /z/ | ł | š /ʃ/, ž /ʒ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | |||
Affricate | ts /ts/ | tł | ||||||
Resonant | w /w/ | r /ɾ/ | l /l/ | y /j/ |
Vowels
a e i o u + diphthongs (PLak a and ā merge by default, except āy > ay, ay > ey)
e i cemtralize after !
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs
Inflectional morphology:
Nouns
- construct state
- Feminine sg. -ə (-is > -əh > -ə)
- Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup; inanimate feminine nouns in -a have zero marked plurals.
Verbs
- Present tense bi- (from the agentive)
- Past: r infix participle
- Future and imperative: unmarked form
Syntax
more head-final than Naeng
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