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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the most spoken modern Zoomic language, and served as a lingua franca of Western [[Verse:Etalocin]] (in the conworld [[Verse:Tricin]]) in the modern era before [[Clofabosin]] became more prominent in the information age. It's inspired by Irish and German (it's the latest incarnation of my [[Tíogall]] and [[Wiebian]]).
{{Infobox language
 
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'''{{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===
====Stress====
====Stress====
====Intonation====
====Intonation====
{{PAGENAME}} has a distinctive intonation paradigm, similar to Irish English or Valspeak.
*In declarative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word (if there is no focused constituent, the last word) has a lower pitch than the immediately preceding syllable. ("...mid ꜜ LOW mid...") This originates from discursive uptalk in older forms of {{PAGENAME}}, which has since generalized to all declarative sentences. A few relatively isolated accents do not use this pattern.
*In interrogative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word has a higher pitch than the syllable immediately before. ("... mid ꜛ HIGH mid ... ?")
*In exclamations, the pattern is "... mid ꜜ LOW-HIGH mid ... !", possibly with a gradual drop to low pitch in the end. Angry or indignant questions also use an exclamatory intonation.


===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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No mutations (it's not a Talmic language)
 
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==Syntax==
==Syntax==
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==Example texts==
==Example texts==
==Poetry==
zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd
where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem
==Other resources==
==Other resources==
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