Raanatuu [RTU]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Raanatuu
Raanatuu is a language from the Laatu Language Family. Raanatuu is widely spoken throughout Tsapliituu and Maatruu. It is considered a scholarly, trading, political, as well as religious language, producing a large amount of second language speakers.
Sound samples in Raanatuu
Some sound samples of Raanatuu. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
ata ysi tiidla diiti.
A cat is drinking milk.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
A cat is drinking milk.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]1 | [ɮ]2 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | kw |
- Found in Draucha dialect, allophone of /s/
- Found in Draucha dialect, allophone of /z/
- Present only on word intial, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||
| Open | a a: | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Raanatuu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RaanatuuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ |
| Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/kw/ | Rr/r/, [ɾ]1 | Ss/s/, [ɬ]2 |
| Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/, [ɮ]3 | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Present only on word intial
- Found in Draucha dialect
- Found in Draucha dialect
