Taot [TTLW]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Place & SpeakersTaot is spoken by a population of around 200,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Taot
Taot or classical Taot is the well attested predecessor of all modern Taot languages, a family of conlangs spoken in Konphee (as it is known in Taot), a conworld based on Earth in terms of oecosystem.
Sample of Taot[view] Eetnak keloo pewnaas, sees leez keloo pewnaas; sees za rol khoonpa pewnaas. Lawa seek onnek oolo keloo khoonpa tel so pewnaas, tawla leez nak so.
Cattle die, kinsmen die; all men are mortal. Words of praise will never perish, nor a noble name.[view all texts]
Cattle die, kinsmen die; all men are mortal. Words of praise will never perish, nor a noble name.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | [m]1 | [n̪]2 | n n: | [ŋ]3 | ||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | t̪ t̪ʰ | k kʰ | |||||||||||
Fricative | s | h | ||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r: | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- Allophone of /n/ before labial consonants.
- Allophone of /n/ before dental consonants.
- Allophone of /n/ before velar consonants.
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i: | u: | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Taot. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TaotOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
a/a/ | aa/a:/ | e/e/ | ee/i:/ | h/h/ | k/k/ | kh/kʰ/ | l/l/ | ll/l:/ | n/n/, [n̪]1, [m]2, [ŋ]3 | nn/n:/ | o/o/ |
oo/u:/ | p/p/ | ph/pʰ/ | r/ɾ/ | rr/r:/ | s/s/ | t/t̪/ | th/t̪ʰ/ | w/w/ | y/j/ | z/t͡s/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Allophone of /n/ before dental consonants.
- Allophone of /n/ before labial consonants.
- Allophone of /n/ before velar consonants.