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|region = Zoom Islands
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|speakers= 270 million
|speakers= 6 million
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a language isolate spoken by the !Zoom people. It's inspired by beatboxing.
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a language isolate spoken by the !Zoom people. It's inspired by beatboxing, Vietnamese and Southern American English.


==Introduction==
==Introduction==
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===Consonants===
===Consonants===
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.
A lot of clicks and ejectives - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.
 
Implosives: ɓ ɗ ᶑ ʄ


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
/a i u a: i: u: ai au ə/ '''a i u â î û ai au e'''
Triphthongs: æjə ejə ɪjə ɛjɔ
 
/ə/ is a common outcome of vowel reduction and can only occur in unstressed syllables.


===Prosody===
===Prosody===
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[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
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[[Category:Lakovic languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]

Revision as of 19:57, 27 May 2020

ǃZoom
Created byIlL, Praimhín
SettingVerse:Tricin
Native speakers6 million (13b0dd)
Isolate
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Tłkaw is a language isolate spoken by the !Zoom people. It's inspired by beatboxing, Vietnamese and Southern American English.

Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks

Consonants

A lot of clicks and ejectives - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.

Implosives: ɓ ɗ ᶑ ʄ

Vowels

Triphthongs: æjə ejə ɪjə ɛjɔ

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

Other resources