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-'''Thoschian''' [θoʃˑɪən] is the main language of westernmost Herooku. Created for the fantasy world of Grundet by [[User:Juhhmi|juhhmi].
+'''Thoschian''' /θoʃˑɪən/ is the main language of easternmost Herooku. Created for the fantasy world of Grundet by [[User:Juhhmi|juhhmi]].
 ==Phonology==
 ===Consonants===
+{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 720px; text-align:center;"
+! style="width: 90px; "|
+! style="width: 70px; " |Bilabial
+! style="width: 70px; " |Labio-dental
+! style="width: 70px; " |Dental
+! style="width: 70px; " |Alveolar
+! style="width: 70px; " |Post-alveolar
+! style="width: 70px; " |Palatal
+! style="width: 70px; " |Velar
+! style="width: 70px; " |Uvular
+! style="width: 70px; " |Glottal
+|-
+! style="" |Nasal
+| '''m''' <br />m
+|
+|
+| '''n''' <br />n
+|
+|''' nj''' <br />ɲ
+|''' ng''' <br />ŋ
+|
+|
+|-
+! style="" |Plosive
+| '''p  b'''<br />p  b
+|
+|
+|''' t  d'''<br />t  d
+|
+| '''tj dj'''<br />c  ɟ
+| '''k  g'''<br />k  g
+| '''q''' <br />q
+| ''' ' ''' <br />ʔ
+|-
+! style="" |Fricative
+|
+| '''f  v'''<br />f v
+|''' th  dh'''<br />θ ð
+| '''s z'''<br />s z
+| '''sch zj'''<br />ʃ ʒ
+|''' h  j'''<br />ç ʝ
+| '''ch'''<br />x
+|''' hq'''<br />χ
+| '''h'''<br />h
+|-
+! style="" |Trill
+|
+|
+|
+|''' r'''<br />r
+|
+|
+|
+| '''rq'''<br />ʀ
+|
+|-
+! style="" |Lateral app.
+|
+|
+|
+| '''l'''<br />l
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|}
+*Fricatives: /h/ appears with back vowels and /ç/ with front vowels.
+*Word final voiced consonants are reduced into voiceless unless followed by a word beginning with another voiced consonant: ''lag tesch'' /lak teʃ/ vs. ''lag durni'' /lag durni/
 ===Vowels===
+{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 255px; text-align:center;"
+! style="width: 90px; "|
+! style="width: 55px; " |Front
+! style="width: 55px; " |Central
+! style="width: 55px; " |Back
+|-
+! style="" |Close
+|
+| '''ni'''<br>ɨ
+| '''u'''<br>u
+|-
+! style="" |Near-Close
+| '''i'''<br>ɪ
+|
+| u<br>ʊ
+|-
+! style="" |Close-Mid
+| '''no'''<br>ø
+|
+| '''o'''<br>o
+|-
+!style="" |Mid
+|'''e'''<br>e
+|e/o<br>ə
+|
+|-
+! style="" |Open-mid
+|
+|
+| '''a o'''<br>ʌ ɔ
+|-
+! style="" |Near-open
+|
+| a<br>ɐ
+|
+|-
+! style="" |Open
+| '''na'''<br>a
+|
+| '''a'''<br>ɑ
+|}
+*Unstressed reduction of vowels.
+*Stressed ''a'' is ''qento'' "deep" /ɑ/ after all velar, uvular and glottal consonants and after voiced consonants (except for ''d'') and ''miteh'' "shallow" /ʌ/ after the rest of the voiceless consonants. Similarly with ''o'', the pronunciation varies between "deep" /ɔ/ and "shallow" /o/.
 ==Orthography==
-*Written with or without the ''c'': ''kch'' [kx], ''sch'' [ʃ]
+===Native===
-*''no'' [ø]
+Influence from both Goldhearts and Ancient Kher Empire led to the birth of a combination of alphabet and syllabary systems derived from Rinapri logographs and nowadays written from right to left.
+===Romanization===
+*Trigraphs written with or without the ''c'': ''kch'' /kx/, ''sch'' /ʃ/
+**Marked, if matters: ''lashe'' /lʌsˈçe/ (sprinkle; vernacularly [ˈlʌ.ɕˑe]) vs. ''lasche'' /ˈlʌ.ʃe/ (conviction)
+*Former nasals: ''no'' /ø/, ''ni'' /ɨ/, ''na'' /a/
+==Grammar==
+Characteristic to an East-Herookuan language:
 [[Category:Ideas]]