Tobiseng [TBS]
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Language type
Mixed
Place & SpeakersTobiseng is spoken by a population of 73,900 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tobiseng
TTobïseng is a simple SOV analytical language that has a small word count and uses many compounds, and since all words are monosyllabic, compounds can be told apart by the number of syllables. Some words can be different parts of speech based on context.
As you can probably tell, TTobïseng is based on Mandarin Chinese in many ways. There's the slightly similar grammar, the monosyllabic root words, and a whole bunch of words are borrowed or adapted from Mandarin.
The basic sentence structure is:
Subject-Time-D.O.-I.O.-Adverb-Verb
Anything relating to particles other than <qa> <o> <nïla> can go anywhere before the verb.
Adjectives come before the noun they modify, and relative clauses, marked by <pe>, come after the noun.
Full summary is a WIP
As you can probably tell, TTobïseng is based on Mandarin Chinese in many ways. There's the slightly similar grammar, the monosyllabic root words, and a whole bunch of words are borrowed or adapted from Mandarin.
The basic sentence structure is:
Subject-Time-D.O.-I.O.-Adverb-Verb
Anything relating to particles other than <qa> <o> <nïla> can go anywhere before the verb.
Adjectives come before the noun they modify, and relative clauses, marked by <pe>, come after the noun.
Full summary is a WIP
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | c cʰ | ɟ | k kʰ | g | ||||||
| Fricative | s | z | x | ɣ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ]1 [t͡ʃʰ]2 | [d͡ʒ]3 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
- allophone of /c/
- allophone of /cʰ/
- allophone of /ɟ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tobiseng. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TobisengOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Åå åp /ɑ/ | Aa ap /a/ | Bb bek /b/ | Cc cak /c/ | CC cc cca /cʰ/ | Dd dek /d/ | Ee ep /ɛ/ | Gg gek /g/ | Hh hai /h/ | Ïï ïp /ɪ/ | Ii ip /i/ |
| Jj jek /ɟ/ | Kk kak /k/ | KK kk kka /kʰ/ | Ll lai /l/ | Mm mak /m/ | Nn nak /n/ | NG ng ang /ŋ/ | Öö öp /ʌ/ | Oo op /o/ | Pp pak /p/ | PP pp ppa /pʰ/ |
| Qq qek /ɣ/ | Ss sak /s/ | Tt tak /t/ | TT tt tta /tʰ/ | Uu up /u/ | Ww wai /w/ | Xx xak /x/ | Yy jai /j/ | Zz zek /z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
