Tłkaw

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

Tłkaw /ˈ!̩.zu:m/ (dgē Zum /g͡!ɜː zum/; dgē is related to Naeng tger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by Hebrew, Nama, Zulu, and !Xóõ. It's in a sprachbund with Yacavestub and Wiebian (clickTalmic).

!xu||xam!xai

human = ləkow

Phonology

Orthography

Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks

Consonants

Tłkaw consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Click	voiceless	pk /kʘ/, tk /k!/, tsk /kǀ/, tłk /ɡǁ/
	voiced	bg /ŋʘ~ɡʘ/, dg /ŋ!~ɡ!/, dsg /ŋǀ~ɡǀ/, dłg /ŋǁ~ɡǁ/
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/			k /k/	/ʔ-/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /ɡ/
	implosive	qb /ɓ/	qd /ɗ/			qg /ɠ/
Fricative			s /s/, z /z/	ł	š /ʃ/, ž /ʒ/	x /x/	h /h/
Affricate			ts /ts/	tł
Resonant		w /w/	r /ɾ/	l /l/	y /j/

Vowels

a e i o u + diphthongs (PLak a and ā merge by default, except āy > ay, ay > ey)

e i cemtralize after !

Morphology

Should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs

Inflectional morphology:

Nouns

• construct state
• Feminine sg. -ə (-is > -əh > -ə)
• Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup; inanimate feminine nouns in -a have zero marked plurals.

Verbs

• Present tense bi- (from the agentive)
• Past: r infix participle
• Future and imperative: unmarked form

Syntax

more head-final than Naeng

Poetry

zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd

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