Taghini [TGH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Taghini
The language of Taghini is spoken by the Tøkat (pronounced as /tuket/), a race of long-living, giant-winged humanoids whose populations once numbered alongside the humans. However, due to their near endangerment, they have fled to remote, often unreachable mountains across the Oceanic region.
Over time, they have borrowed elements from neighbouring Central-Eastern Oceanic languages, and -- combining it with the now-lost primitive, vowel-exclusive language of their ancestors -- developed a very human-esque language through the generations.
Many of the words that did not naturally evolve through the Taghini language have been borrowed from many other Central Pacific languages, such as: Hawaiian, Mangaian, Maori, Penrhyn, Rarotongan, Samoan, among others.
Over time, they have borrowed elements from neighbouring Central-Eastern Oceanic languages, and -- combining it with the now-lost primitive, vowel-exclusive language of their ancestors -- developed a very human-esque language through the generations.
Many of the words that did not naturally evolve through the Taghini language have been borrowed from many other Central Pacific languages, such as: Hawaiian, Mangaian, Maori, Penrhyn, Rarotongan, Samoan, among others.
Sample of Taghini[view] møninum liloø an uløl / umitum liloø an utnan. / til uli inoøai-igolum khi nanailai ømit / møninum an uløl ai / mi'hotintoø, øg ømit / umitum an utnan ai liga.
Yesterday is but a dream, / Tomorrow is only a vision. / But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.[view all texts]
Yesterday is but a dream, / Tomorrow is only a vision. / But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
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Taghini
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Oceanic
⤷ Central-Eastern Oceanic
⤷ Central Pacific
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Taghini[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | |||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||
| Open | ɒ | |||
| Polyphthongs | oʊ | eɪ | iʌ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Taghini. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TaghiniOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||||
| Aa aki /ɒ/ | Ee eki /e/ | Gg gi /g/ | Hh hi /h/ | Ii iki /i/ | Kk ki /k/ | Ll li /l/ | Mm mø /m/ | Nn ni /n/ | Pp pi /p/ | Tt ti /t/ | Uu uki /ʌ/ | Ww wi /v/ | Øø øki /u/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Taghini's Verbal Mood System
An explanation behind the base moods of Taghini.
11-Jun-17 06:59
