Ancient Sohcahtoan
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| Ancient Sohcahtoan | |
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| fē sō-ktã-gū | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈfeːsoːktəguː] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2023 |
| Native to | Republic of Sohcahtoa |
Early form | Proto-Sohcahtoic
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Ancient Sohcahtoan is a Japonic language that is the precursor of Sohcahtoan. Nowadays, it is used for solely ceremonial purposes at festivals, and no one actually uses it in everyday speech. Much of Ancient Sohcahtoan has been documented verbally, however some words have been comparatively reconstructed from modern Sohcahtoan. These comparatively reconstructed words are marked with an "*"(asterisk) at the beginning of a word.
Phonology
Orthography
Whereas modern Sohcahtoan uses the three Japanese scripts, Ancient Sohcahtoan was probably written using a rudimentary runic alphabet to represent the phonology. However, as the Japanese scripts began to heavily influence Sohcahtoan, the runes fell out of use in favour of Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, which led to vowel and consonant change, e.g. ʂ -> ʃ and the complete dropping of [ə](ã) and [u], the former turned into [eoː] and the latter into [ɯ].
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 | ʂ | |||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Mid | ə | |||
| Open | a | |||
All vowels in Ancient Sohcahtoan(except [i] and [ə]) have elongated versions, those being ō([oː]), ā([aː]), ē([eː]) and ū([uː]).