Sohcahtoan
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| Sohcahtoan | |
|---|---|
| 外事語(sō-kato-gū) | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈsoːkatogɯː] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2022 |
| Native to | Republic of Sohcahtoa |
Early form | |
Sohcahtoan(外事語, sō-kato-gū pronounced [ˈsoːkatogɯː]) is a Japonic conlang spoken on the fictional island of Sohcahtoa. Its phonology, lexical base and grammar are all firmly Japonic, although more recently loanwords from other languages such as Portuguese(ッアスカ, 'asuka([ˈʔasɯka]) from Portuguese açucar, meaning "sugar") and modern Japanese(共和国, kū-a-gugeō([ˈkɯːagɯgeoː]) from Japanese 共和国, kyōwakoku, meaning "republic").
Phonology
Orthography
Modern Sohcahtoan uses all three scripts used in the Japanese language today: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, and each script more of less retain their original purpose as in Japanese. However, some hiragana are pronounced differently than in Japanese, most notably <を> being pronounced [(w)o] in Japanese and [oː] in Sohcahtoan, and <は> being pronounced [ha] or [wa] in Japanese and [aː] in Sohcahtoan.
Additionally, while Japanese kanji have two ways to read a kanji(onyomi and kunyomi), Sohcahtoan kanji have only one way to read a kanji.
Ancient Sohcahtoan uses the Latin script, as some sounds like [ə] can not be represented using solely Hiragana or Katakana. The Ancient Sohcahtoan alphabet is heavily based on the Portuguese alphabet, such as how <ã> is used to represent [ə].
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ alveolar |
Post- alveolar/ palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | |||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | |||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɯ | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
All vowels in Sohcahtoan(except [i]) have elongated versions, those being ō([oː]), ā([aː]), ē([eː]) and ū([ɯː]).
Prosody
Stress
Sohcahtoan is a prototonic language, meaning that linguistic stress is placed on the first syllable of a word. This feature is from Ancient Sohcahtoan.
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Syllables in Sohcahtoan follow the form of (C)V, which contrasts with the Ancient Sohcahtoan pattern of V(C).