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Revision as of 17:55, 26 January 2019
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| Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
| Native speakers | 270 million (13b0dd) |
Lakovic
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Tłkaw is a Lakovic language spoken by Zoomers. It's a tonal language with clicks and mutations.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.
Vowels
/a i u a: i: u: ai au ə/ a i u â î û ai au e
/ə/ is a common outcome of vowel reduction and can only occur in unstressed syllables.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
No mutations (it's not a Talmic language)
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Poetry
zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd
where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem