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Revision as of 04:45, 28 January 2019

Drug names in Tricin are informed by the phonologies of the six most common modern Trician languages (Hetomic, Sowaár, Eevo, Windermere, Clofabosin), while taking roots from abbreviations and chemical names.

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Phonology

The phonemes have a range of acceptable pronunciations.

Consonants

Labial Dental/Alveolar Palatal Velar
Nasal m /m/ n /n/
Plosive unaspirated b /p~b/ d /t~d/ g /k~g/
aspirated p /pʰ~p/ t /tʰ~t/ tx /tʃ/ c /kʰ~k/
Fricative unvoiced s /s/ x /ʃ/ ç /ç~x~χ~h/
voiced v /w~v/
Resonant r /r/, l /l~ɬ/

Tizian has mutations

No initial ng

Vowels

a e i w /a e i o u/; no diphthongs or vowel length, and no hiatus

Stress

Stress is always initial.

Affixes

Uses prefixes and suffixes roughly equally (?)