Taum [TAU]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Taum
Tyaeum's main purpose is to be sung, not spoken (though of course it can be). It is not a true musiclang in that the words/phonemes and the note they are sung in have no relevance to each other. Ideally, any song should be able to be translated into Tyaeum and sung easily.
A few specific choices have been made in order to make Tyaeum more musical sounding or to make it easier to understand when listened to:
1. It doesn't have tones
2. Where stress is placed in a polysyllabic word is unimportant.
3. Vowel extension also has no effect on the meaning of a word.
4. All syllables only end with consonants that can have an extended sound (l, m, n) or a vowel
5. Voiced/voiceless consonant pairs never share the same vowels
6. It uses a standard 5 vowel system (a/i/u/e/o)
As for personal aesthetic choices, the phonetics were inspired by Korean, however, inspiration to create a syllabary came from Japanese, which is why you may see some similarities. Despite its inspiration, Tyaeum is a priori. Tyaeum is more limited in phonemes than many syllable based languages.
A few specific choices have been made in order to make Tyaeum more musical sounding or to make it easier to understand when listened to:
1. It doesn't have tones
2. Where stress is placed in a polysyllabic word is unimportant.
3. Vowel extension also has no effect on the meaning of a word.
4. All syllables only end with consonants that can have an extended sound (l, m, n) or a vowel
5. Voiced/voiceless consonant pairs never share the same vowels
6. It uses a standard 5 vowel system (a/i/u/e/o)
As for personal aesthetic choices, the phonetics were inspired by Korean, however, inspiration to create a syllabary came from Japanese, which is why you may see some similarities. Despite its inspiration, Tyaeum is a priori. Tyaeum is more limited in phonemes than many syllable based languages.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | k | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]1 | |||||||||||
| Blends | ɹɛ | lɛ | mi | tja | pja | mɔ | lɯ | li | sɔ | nja |
| nɯ | ʃa | ʃɔ | bi | bwa | tʃe | pɔ | ɹɔ | ja | bɛ | |
| jɯ | tʃi | ʃɛ | swa | ki | jɔ | jɛ | ʃi | ʃɯ | mjɔ | |
| sa | kɔ | la | ji | nɛ | ɹa | tɛ |
- allophone of /ɹ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | aɹ | ɔl | im | al | ɛs | an | is | ɯm | ɯl | ɛm |
| il | ɔn | iɹ | ɛɹ | aʃ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Taum. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TaumOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| AHN ahn/an/ | AHR ahr/aɹ/ | AL al/al/ | ASH ash/aʃ/ | BE be/bɛ/ | BI bi/bi/ | BWA bwa/bwa/ | CHE che/tʃe/ | CHI chi/tʃi/ | EM em/ɛm/ | ER er/ɛɹ/ |
| ES es/ɛs/ | EUL eul/ɯl/ | EUM eum/ɯm/ | IL il/il/ | IM im/im/ | IR ir/iɹ/ | IS is/is/ | KI ki/ki/ | KO ko/kɔ/ | LA la/la/ | LE le/lɛ/ |
| LI li/li/ | LU lu/lɯ/ | MI mi/mi/ | MO mo/mɔ/ | MYO myo/mjɔ/ | Nn/n/ | NE ne/nɛ/ | NU nu/nɯ/ | NYA nya/nja/ | OL ol/ɔl/ | ON on/ɔn/ |
| PO po/pɔ/ | PYA pya/pja/ | RA ra/ɹa/ | RE re/ɹɛ/ | RO ro/ɹɔ/ | SA sa/sa/ | SHA sha/ʃa/ | SHE she/ʃɛ/ | SHI shi/ʃi/ | SHO sho/ʃɔ/ | SHU shu/ʃɯ/ |
| SO so/sɔ/, /sɔ/ | SWA swa/swa/ | TE te/tɛ/ | TYA tya/tja/ | YA ya/ja/ | YE ye/jɛ/ | YI yi/ji/ | YO yo/jɔ/ | YU yu/jɯ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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