Tatsan [TCN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tatsan
Tatsan (Tŏcan, /tɔt͡san/) is a language spoken in Arrym, mostly along the coast in the northern regions of the country. It is a language isolate, unrelated to the other languages on the continent of Alpa. The language heavily features infixes as a means of conjugation and declension, and is strongly head-final and dependent marking.
Language family relationships
[view] About SovanicSovanic is a language isolate family that arose in northern Arrym.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | [ɴ]2 | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]3 | t | [d]4 | k | [g]5 | q | [ɢ]6 | ||||||||||
Fricative | [f]7 | v | [θ]8 | ð | s | [z]9 | [ʃ]10 | ʒ | x | [ɣ]11 | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]12 | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | [r]13 | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /q/
- allophone of /v/
- allophone of /ð/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /ɾ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Near-open | ɐ | |||||||||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tatsan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TatsanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Ăă/ɐ/ | Aa/a/ | Cc/t͡s/, [d͡z] | Dd/ð/, [θ] | Ee/e/ | Ĕĕ/ɛ/ | Hh/x/, [ɣ] | Ii/i/ | Ĭĭ/ɪ/ |
Kk/k/, [g] | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɴ], [ŋ] | Ŏŏ/ɔ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/, [b] | Qq/q/, [ɢ] | Rr/ɾ/, [r] |
Ss/s/, [z] | Tt/t/, [d] | Uu/u/ | Ŭŭ/ʊ/ | Vv/v/, [f] | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/, [ʃ] | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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Adjectives
Adjective use in Tatsan
03-Dec-16 22:59Verbs
Verbs in Tatsan
03-Dec-16 22:34Nouns
Nouns in Tatsan
03-Dec-16 22:34