Tłkaw

Tłkaw
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Hmøøh
Native speakers	6 million (13b0dd)
Language family	Lakovic Tłkaw

Tłkaw (dgē Tłkaw /ŋ͡!ɜː kǁaw/; dgē is related to Naeng tnger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Tłkaw 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

The demonnym Tłkaw comes from PLak *lakof 'human'.

Clickhmoob relative?

Phonology

Orthography

Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks

Consonants

Tłkaw consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Click	voiceless	pk /kʘ/, tk /k!/, tsk /kǀ/, tłk /kǁ/
	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 !

Morphology

Should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs

Inflectional morphology:

Nouns

• construct state
• Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup

Verbs

• Present tense bi- (from the agentive)
• Past: r infix participle
• Future and imperative: unmarked form

Syntax

more head-final than Naeng

Poetry

Tłkaw should have Welsh style cynghanedd

where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem