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taitian
taiti [taiti]
taitiantaiti [taiti]
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Language type
Not specified
Place & Speakerstaitian is spoken by a population of 51,030,900 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About taitian
Taitan is a language spoken in Taiti, a fictional country in a fictional world. It is the national language of the nation and has a small diaspora community throughout its world. Taiti is located on and around the equator, and consists of the Taitan peninsula, which is similar in shape to the Italian peninsula, and an archipelago, similar to Indonesia and the Philippines. Taitan is an important symbol of Taitan nationalism, along with the bluebird, the tatao plant, and the orainana.
The Taitan language itself takes inspiration from various real-world languages. The writing system is modeled after Japanese hiragana, the phonology is rather unique, but the vocabulary is based off of some the Celtic languages, mainly Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh. Taitan has 14 consonants, and 5 vowels, and all vowels can appear geminated. Syllable structure is simple (C)V, and no more than 2 vowels are allowed in a row, meaning that the most extreme structure is "VVCVV". Taitan also has multiple dialects, including the regional Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, Central, and Capital Taitan, but also featuring an Older dialect, still used mainly as a liturgical language, a bastardized form of Taitan known as "Kaikan", and the Standard form, often referred to as plain "Taitan". Though the dialects do form a continuum, they can also be divided into boundaries based on similarities, and they are all mutually intelligible, the differences are mainly in pronunciation, but also include some grammatical changes and differences in word choice. Taitan grammer is somewhat complex, but not too much so. Word order is SOV, and Taitan has 3 grammatical genders, Masculine, feminine, and neuter. It has a complex Morphological system, primarily based off of suffixes. Taitan also uses a unique measurement system and a vigesimal counting system, but a decimal system also exists, due to the influence of other languages, which mostly use decimal systems.
Taitan is incomplete
The Taitan language itself takes inspiration from various real-world languages. The writing system is modeled after Japanese hiragana, the phonology is rather unique, but the vocabulary is based off of some the Celtic languages, mainly Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh. Taitan has 14 consonants, and 5 vowels, and all vowels can appear geminated. Syllable structure is simple (C)V, and no more than 2 vowels are allowed in a row, meaning that the most extreme structure is "VVCVV". Taitan also has multiple dialects, including the regional Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, Central, and Capital Taitan, but also featuring an Older dialect, still used mainly as a liturgical language, a bastardized form of Taitan known as "Kaikan", and the Standard form, often referred to as plain "Taitan". Though the dialects do form a continuum, they can also be divided into boundaries based on similarities, and they are all mutually intelligible, the differences are mainly in pronunciation, but also include some grammatical changes and differences in word choice. Taitan grammer is somewhat complex, but not too much so. Word order is SOV, and Taitan has 3 grammatical genders, Masculine, feminine, and neuter. It has a complex Morphological system, primarily based off of suffixes. Taitan also uses a unique measurement system and a vigesimal counting system, but a decimal system also exists, due to the influence of other languages, which mostly use decimal systems.
Taitan is incomplete
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ||||||
| Fricative | f | v | ð | s | z | ʒ | ||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Blends | te | sa | pa | ʒi | fi | ta | mi | tu | ve | pe |
| ma | na | le | ʒo | ðe | bu | bi | me | se | fo | |
| du | si | va | da | ɾu | ði | vo | mo | lu | fa | |
| ða | ze | ɾi | bo | di | ne | mu | ʒu | vi | ba | |
| zi | be | ʒa | pu | ðu | zu | ɾe | ti | lo | fu | |
| ʒe | ni | ðo | po | zo | vu | to | la | su | li | |
| de | so | do | pi | za | fe | no | ɾo | ɾa | nu |
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
| Open | a a: | |||
| Polyphthongs | ae | oe | ea | ia | oa | oi | ou | ua | ue | uo |
| io | iu | ui | ai | ao | au | ei | ie | eu | eo |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for taitian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 taitianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/ | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | Ðð/ð/ | Ʒʒ/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
