Motau [NOTA]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Motau
Motau is an ancestral tonal language once spoken by a nation of alien pecorans. Over time, it diverged into a 'Royal' Dialect, spoken in the palaces, and the common dialect known as Notau, which is spoken by the peasants scattered across the mountain range.
Sample of Motau[view] ààmetïìnênmön mùmütü întè èê ò àtütüo mù toùnetönàn înmùmtò
I was going to leave some fruit out for him, but I remembered he doesn't eat fruit.[view all texts]
I was going to leave some fruit out for him, but I remembered he doesn't eat fruit.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | |||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | t | |||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | ʉ᷇ ʉ̂̄ ʉ́ ʉ̄ | |||||
| Close-mid | e᷇ ê̄ é ē | ɤ᷇ ɤ̂ ɤ́ ɤ̄ | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ᷇ ɛ̂̄ ɛ́ ɛ̄ | ɜ᷇ ɜ̂̄ ɜ́ ɜ̄ | ||||
Syllable Structure(m, t) V (n)
Stress information* A syllable ending on a lower tone than the beginning of the following tone is lightly accented (spoken more forcefully and lengthily),
* Unless the second syllable begins with a t (in this case the second syllable is stressed) or the preceding syllable is stressed.
* Unless the second syllable begins with a t (in this case the second syllable is stressed) or the preceding syllable is stressed.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Motau. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MotauOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| a/ɜ̄/ | à/ɜ̂̄/ | ä/ɜ́/ | â/ɜ᷇/ | e/ɛ̄/ | è/ɛ̂̄/ | ë/ɛ́/ | ê/ɛ᷇/ | ì/ê̄/ | i/ē/ | î/e᷇/ | ï/é/ |
| m/m/ | n/ŋ/ | ô/ɤ᷇/ | o/ɤ̄/ | ö/ɤ́/ | ò/ɤ̂/ | t/t/ | ü/ʉ́/ | u/ʉ̄/ | û/ʉ᷇/ | ù/ʉ̂̄/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
Additional NotesPecorans don't have fingers, and peasants don't have the luxury of education. The speakers of Motau are virtually all illiterate, and consequently they didn't have an orthography system.
Ignore the distribution; it's skewed because I started copying my own lexicon into the one here and then decided that maintaining two dictionaries is too much effort.
Ignore the distribution; it's skewed because I started copying my own lexicon into the one here and then decided that maintaining two dictionaries is too much effort.
