Tenok language
| Tenok language | |
|---|---|
| 帝荷言, 테녹북 | |
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| Created by | Leonardo Sillim |
| Date | 2019 |
| Setting | Auxiliary language |
| Native speakers | unknown (2021) |
| Sources | a priori |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Tenok Language Society |
| ConWorkShop | TBK |
Tenok (/ˈtenok) is an a priori constructed language created by Leonardo Sillim in 2019. Despite being an a priori language, parts of its vocabulary comes from Chinese (most of the varieties) and a few words and verbs borrowed from Japanese.
Introduction
Leonardo started creating Tenok in 15th October 2019, with the purpose of being an International Auxiliary Language for all kinds of people around the world, giving to them a new way to connect to each other. Nowadays, Tenok has being developing to be more usable to everyone. It is estimated to be full posted publicly in 2022 with some learning e-books and a Tenok-English dictionary.
Etymology
帝荷 (Tenok) means: sovereign lotus. It is called this way because the lotus is Leonardo Sillim's favorite plant. So, it became an inspiration to the name of this conlang.
Writing Scripts
Tenok is written with Hanabi, which is the Chinese characters (including の) and Manabi (Hangeul). Also, sometimes it uses the Latin alphabet for romanization.
Sounds
| Latin script | a | b | c | d | e | é | z | g | h | i, yi | j | k | kk | m | n | o | ó | p | pp | r/l |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manabi | ㅏ | ㅂ | ㅊ |
ㄷ |
ㅔ |
ㅐ |
ㅉ |
ㄱ |
ㅎ |
ㅣ |
ㅈ |
ㅋ |
ㄲ |
ㅁ |
ㄴ |
ㅗ |
ㅓ |
ㅍ |
ㅃ |
ㄹ/ㄹㄹ |
| Latin script | s | ss | t | tt | u | w | ø* | ng** | ya | ye | yē | yo | yō | yu | oa | oe, ue | oé | ui | uó | wi |
| Manabi |
ㅅ |
ㅆ |
ㅌ |
ㄸ |
ㅜ |
ㅡ |
ㅇ* |
ㅇ** |
ㅑ |
ㅖ |
ㅒ |
ㅛ |
ㅕ |
ㅠ |
ㅘ |
ㅚ/ㅞ |
ㅙ |
ㅟ |
ㅝ |
ㅢ |
- there is no sound in this letter when it's used before a vowel.
- after a vowel it has the same sound as the English "ng".
For more info about Manabi (Hangeul) and how it is written, click here!.
Grammar
The language itself is an SOV (subject-object-verb) language.
Flag
The flag of the Tenok language was created in 2021 as a symbol to represent the language.
The flag shows in the middle a big circle with a small one inside, representing an eye looking towards the future.
Those strong colors (red & blue) are used to catch the atention of whoever is looking, and 'once you see it, you will fall in love with the flag'.