Sohcahtoan
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Sohcahtoan(外事語, sō-kato-gū pronounced [soːkatogɯː]) 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
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]).