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1. Nojum:Morleon I

2. Teknite Cases (and Genders)

3. Teknite Phonology (and Orthography)

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Menu 1. Overview 2. Sounds

[top]Overview

Teknite is a language with a pretty straight-forward orthography: one phoneme, one grapheme (there are some exceptions). Here, I'm going to explain stuff about Teknite phonology.

In a nutshell: 33 phonemes - 20 consonants. 3 geminate consonants, 6 base vowels, 4 pre-palatalized (or iotized) vowels.

[top]Sounds

There are 33 phonemes (23 consonants + 10 vowels) in Teknite, shown by the table below:

Graph	IPA	Kirentar			Example
Base Vowels
a	/a/	a			Flan "bird"
u	/u/	u			Mult "power"
e	/ɛ/	e			Dell "flower"
o	/ɔ/	o			Flan "bird"
i	/i/	i			Dib "hour"
y	/y/	y			Tyn "sky"
Pre-palatalized Vowels
á	/ʲa/	α			Sán "cat"
ú	/ʲu/	υ			Múm "sight"
é	/ʲɛ/	ε			Mérl "to rule"
ó	/ʲɔ/	ο			Selóh "to breathe"
Plosives
p	/p/	p			Part "paper"
b	/b/	b			Ben "to need"
t	/t/	м	t	н	Tex "beyond"
d	/d/	о	d	п	Nad "bright"
k	/k/	k		κ	Kirah "square"
g	/g/	γ	g		Tig "edge"
Fricatives
f	/f/	f			Saf "to own"
v	/v/	v			Vish "death"
s	/s/	s			Sev "to live"
z	/z/	z			Zent "guard"
sh	/ʃ/	q			Shib "to conquer"
h	/h/	θ	h		Rah "god"
Liquids
m	/m/	m			Sem "life"
n	/n/	n			Lon "gold"
l	/l/	l			Gil "silver"
Geminates
mm	/m:/	μ
nn	/n:/	ν			Kerlenne "known"
ll	/l:/	λ			Riell "petal"
Other consonants
c	/t͡ʃ/	c			Cen "element"
j	/d͡ʒ/	j			Jebetz "city"
w	/ʋ/	w			Wer "red"
r	/ɾ/; /ɹ/When syllable-final	r			Riv "snow"
x	/ks/; /ɕ/When word-initial	x			Nex "most"

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