Tula [TALU]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tula
Tula is a language spoken in the Biraḍ Forest (['bɨ˞.ɽaɖ̚] in the language of the Forest Elves, I'aá [iʔǎ] in Tula) which is notable in the world as a language with a small phoneme inventory, and "some of the longest words for 'simple' ideas". In all reality, Tula is an agglutinating conlang with 13 total phonemes.
Until the discovery of The Tula people by the Elves, they had been settled in the land since the year 300, long before language had developed. The languages preceding this entry are lost to time with no writing to speak of. However, this entry exists on in the culture as the Classical Language, used purely for government purposes and recordkeeping.
Until the discovery of The Tula people by the Elves, they had been settled in the land since the year 300, long before language had developed. The languages preceding this entry are lost to time with no writing to speak of. However, this entry exists on in the culture as the Classical Language, used purely for government purposes and recordkeeping.
Sample of Tula[view] kú ira púu i'atú, i, i'ar, itiíritíri, ititásí ikarulpu
Just the three of us. You, me, and this brick wall you've built between us.[view all texts]
Just the three of us. You, me, and this brick wall you've built between us.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About iʔaáThe language family of the iʔaá forest (also known as the Biraḍ Forest by the elves to the east)
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | n | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]1 | t2 | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | [f]3 | [v]4 | s5 | h | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]6 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||
- Occurs as an allophone of /ʔ/ before /u/, allophone of /ʔ/
- Also occurs as an allophone of /ʔ/ before /i/
- Occurs as an allophone of /h/ before /u/, allophone of /h/
- Occurs in free variation with /w/, allophone of /w/
- May also occur as an allophone of /h/ before /i/
- Occurs in free variation with /l/, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i î í ǐ | u û ú ǔ | ||||
| Close-mid | [e]1 | [o]2 | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a â á ǎ | |||||
- Occurs as an allophone of /ə/ before alveolar consonants and /i/, allophone of /ə/
- Occurs as an allophone of /ə/ before velar consonants and /u/ but not before /ʀ/, allophone of /ə/
Syllable Structure(C)V(ʀ, l)
Stress informationStress falls either on the first high-tone vowel in the word, or on the first syllable if the word contains no high-tone vowels. Either way, stress is interpreted as a slightly higher pitch than the "canonical" pitch.
OtherThe tone space of Talu is very small, settling between tone values 2 and 4 in unstressed syllables and 3 and 5 in stressed syllables.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tula. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TulaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | a/a/ | á/á/ | aá/ǎ/ | áa/â/ | e[e]1 | f[f]2 | h/h/ | i/i/ |
| í/í/ | ií/ǐ/ | íi/î/ | k/k/ | l/l/ | n/n/ | o[o]3 | p[p]4 | r/ʀ/ |
| s/s/5 | t/t/6, /t/ | u/u/ | ú/ú/ | uú/ǔ/ | úu/û/ | v[v]7 | w/w/ | y/ə/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- Occurs as an allophone of /ə/ before alveolar consonants and /i/
- Occurs as an allophone of /h/ before /u/
- Occurs as an allophone of /ə/ before velar consonants and /u/ but not before /ʀ/
- Occurs as an allophone of /ʔ/ before /u/
- May also occur as an allophone of /h/ before /i/
- Also occurs as an allophone of /ʔ/ before /i/
- Occurs in free variation with /w/
