Tasaitasai [TASA]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersTasaitasai is spoken by a population of around 1,457,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Tasaitasai[view] Uyes a-tonu poriutomato uyuuhi.
This is my beloved tomato.[view all texts]
This is my beloved tomato.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Tasaitasai
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | (m) [m]1 | [ɱ]2 | n [n]3 | [ɲ]4 | ŋ5 | |||||||||||
Plosive | p [p]6 | (b) | t [t]7 | (d) | k [k]8 | (g) | ʔ9 | |||||||||
Fricative | f | [v]10 | s [s]11 | ʃ12 | [ʒ]13 | [x]14 | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before p, allophone of /ŋ/
- before f, allophone of /ŋ/
- before t, n, s, ts, allophone of /ŋ/
- with j, allophone of /ŋ/
- coda
- before p, allophone of /ʔ/
- before t, z, allophone of /ʔ/
- before k, allophone of /ʔ/
- coda
- before o, u, allophone of /w/
- before s, allophone of /ʃ/
- coda
- before i, e, allophone of /j/
- with h, allophone of /ʃ/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
Open | ä |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tasaitasai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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あ a /ä/ | え e /e̞/ | f f /f/ | h h /h/ | い i /i/ | ン j // | k k /k/ | l l /l/ | ん n /n/, /ŋ/1, [n]2, [m]3, [ɲ]4, [ɱ]5 | お o /o̞/ |
p p /p/ | r r /ɾ/ | サ s /ʃ/6, /s/, [s]7, [x]8 | っ t /t/, /ʔ/9, [p]10, [t]11, [k]12 | う u /u/ | w w /w/, [v]13 | ぁ x // | y y /j/, [ʒ]14 | z z /t͡s/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- coda
- before t, n, s, ts
- before p
- with j
- before f
- coda
- before s
- with h
- coda
- before p
- before t, z
- before k
- before o, u
- before i, e