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''' | '''Pókutiì''' [pókuʈî:], "Our language", is the language of both Agurnum (Aguúnjuù [agǔɲû:]) and its colonies in the Land of Rain of Grundet. | ||
Currently I am not working on this, but hopefully I can return to this important language later. | Currently I am not working on this, but hopefully I can return to this important language later. | ||
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===Tones=== | ===Tones=== | ||
Pókutìi has five distinct tones: low, mid, high, rising and falling which alter the pitch of the neighbouring syllables as well (tone sandhi). In romanization these are shown with acute accent (high & rising in long) and grave accent (low & falling in long): á [á], à [à], aá [ǎ:] and aà [â:]. | Pókutìi has five distinct (phonemic) tones: low, mid, high, rising and falling which alter the pitch of the neighbouring syllables as well (tone sandhi). In romanization these are shown with acute accent (high & rising in long) and grave accent (low & falling in long): á [á], à [à], aá [ǎ:] and aà [â:]. | ||
Middle, dipping and peaking tones arise from tone sandhi (?) | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
[[File:Pokutii.jpg|300px|thumb]] | [[File:Pokutii.jpg|300px|thumb]] | ||
Dúloopewu is the official, slightly featural abugida of | Dúloopewu is the official, slightly featural abugida of Pókutiì used in formal writing. Faster demotic Peewu is approaching syllabic script since vowel marks are fused into the consonant graphemes. | ||
Graphemes can be fused into one larger like matryoshka dolls. The script is written from left to right or from bottom to top (when turned 90 degrees counter-clockwise) and sometimes with a combination of these ("fan writing" from left bottom vertically up and then horizontally to rigth). | Graphemes can be fused into one larger like matryoshka dolls. The script is written from left to right or from bottom to top (when turned 90 degrees counter-clockwise) and sometimes with a combination of these ("fan writing" from left bottom vertically up and then horizontally to rigth). | ||