Sohcahtoan

Sohcahtoan
外事語(sō-kato-gū)
Pronunciation	[ˈsoːkatogɯː]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2022
Native to	Republic of Sohcahtoa
Language family	Altaic Japonic part. Ryukyuan Sohcahtoan
Early form	Ancient Sohcahtoan

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.

Morphology

Syllables in Sohcahtoan follow the form of (C)V, which contrasts with the Ancient Sohcahtoan pattern of V(C).