Tłkaw

ǃZoom
Created by	IlL, Praimhín
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Native speakers	6 million (13b0dd)
Language family	Lakovic ǃZoom

Tłkaw /ˈ!̩.zu:m/ (g!e Zum /g͡!ɜː zum/; g!e is related to Naeng tger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by beatboxing, Vietnamese and Southern American English.

!xu||xam!xai

Phonology

Orthography

Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks

Consonants

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

Vowels

Triphthongs: æjə ejə ɪjə ɛjɔ

Morphology

No mutations (it's not a Talmic language); should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs

Inflectional morphology:

• Feminine -a (-is > -əh > -a)
• Present tense bi- (from the agentive);
• Past: r infix participle
• Future and imperative: unmarked form

Poetry

zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd

where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem