Northern Tazuro [NTZR]
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Siblaime on 20 February 2020
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersNorthern Tazuro is spoken by a population of around 11,094,000 in Tazul.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Northern Tazuro
• mildly fusional, active-stative (more specifically fluid-S), head-initial (strictly VSO)
• verb tenses and moods are marked by particles
• a simple but annoying derivation system that makes me scream into the void every time I try to add more words
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Southern Tazuro is better
• supposed to have some generic “exotic” vibes
• grammar article: CLICK
• verb tenses and moods are marked by particles
• a simple but annoying derivation system that makes me scream into the void every time I try to add more words
•
Southern Tazuro is better• supposed to have some generic “exotic” vibes
• grammar article: CLICK
Sample of Northern Tazuro[view] Zá isatoká zujare ba iśen temir jun ni biśti.
People lived on sea rocks with the sea birds.[view all texts]
People lived on sea rocks with the sea birds.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeBereshen
⤷ Proto-Tazulao
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Tazulao
⤷
Northern Tazuro
⤷ Proto-Tazulao
⤷
Tazulao⤷
Northern Tazuro[view] About BereshenA small family of languages spoken on the westernmost coast of Dawera, hence their name – bereśen ‘on the shore’.
It includes Southern and Northern Tazuro, both descending from the Tazulao language impacted by neighbouring languages such as K...
It includes Southern and Northern Tazuro, both descending from the Tazulao language impacted by neighbouring languages such as K...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c3 | ɟ4 | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | h | |||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- spelled <ki>
- spelled <gi>
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i [ĩ]1 | u [ũ]2 | ||||
| Close-mid | e [ẽ]3 | o [õ]4 | ||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]5 | |||||
| Open | a [ã]6 | ɒ | ||||
- word-final allophone of /in/
- word-final allophone of /un/
- word-final allophone of /en/
- word-final allophone of /on/
- allophone of /a/
- word-final allophone of /an/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Northern Tazuro. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Northern TazuroOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɐ] | Áá/ɒ/ | Bb/b/ | Pp/p/ | Dd/d/ | Tt/t/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/, /ɟ/1 | Kk/k/, /c/2 | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/j/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɲ], [ŋ] | Oo/o/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Uu/u/ | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʐ/ | Śś/ʂ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
- spelled <gi>
- spelled <ki>
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Northern Tazuro 101
Morphology, syntax, et cetera
15-Jun-21 09:53
