Tanpun
Introduction
This is a highly experimental engineered language, ultimately focused on flirting with ambiguity and a lack of grammar. It is spoken by no one because it is set in the real world and not set for a fictional people.
Phonology
Consonants
Consonants are fairly minimal. This table contains the written letter and the sound it makes.
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar |
|---|---|---|
| P /p/ | T /t/ | K /k/ |
| M /m/ | N /n/ | Ng /ŋ/ |
| W /w/ | S /s/ | Y /j/ |
Not found in this table is the glottal stop, which is written with H.
Vowels
Vowels contain a standard five vowel system generally, viz. A /a/, E /e/, I /i/, O /o/, U /u/.
Phonotactics
Syllables go in the format of CV(C) (consonant vowel consonant). Consonants can include glides, but not in coda positions. Vowel slot can include diphthongs, and diphthongs can have all permutations. Vowel length is not a feature.
Stress
Stress falls on the last root of the word.
Orthography
Being an engineered language, it has many choices for orthography. By default it is written in the Latin script, but it can be written in various other scripts, however those such scripts do not have an official or standardized orthography. Latin however works as described above.
Spaces
Spaces are somewhat optional, many sentences could go without spaces. For example, is the sentence Tianmentouh which means "it is good". This also can be written "Tian mentouh". Spaces are intended to disambiguate nouns and other things, all different grammatical objects or entities. Copular sentences are the only sentences which can go wholly without spaces in theory. Spaces are up to the author.