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Thuun [UO1]
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Thuun
Tuum
[tʉ:m]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 3 July 2015
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Thuun Thuun is a language spoken in the far north of the world. Much of the vocabulary and overall aesthetic are inspired by various Uralic and Turkic languages.
Tuum kiyllön iilkälän sääl tuumas siitälmënäin. Moamukkoinen jo mëylälä juokun läil tuokoimetain nualilen kiyllimyys Ulallais ja Tylkäläis.
tu~m kiül°ön i*lkälän sä~l tu~mas si*tälmënäin. moamuk°oinen jo mëülälä juokun läil tuokoimetain nualilen kiül°imü~s ulal°ais ja tülkäläis.

Current Status
Sometimes I work on prosody and allophony
Most translations and much of the lexicon on this site are somewhat out of date by now

Features
No genders
No marked definiteness
No adpositions!
Mainly agglutinative, but with some fusionalness too
Exclusively suffixing
Lots of noun cases
Relatively free word order (but usually SVO)
Vowel harmony
Complex morphophonology
Lots of diphthongs
Sample of Thuun[view] Moanasmimuotin läil uo. Jyömmiëmkyyt nan?

There is a lot of water in my body. Do you want to drink it?
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Latest vocabulary
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Language family relationships
Language treePemme
 ⤷  Proto-Pemme
  ⤷  Proto-Kuoggvi
   ⤷ Proto-L-Kuoggvi
    ⤷  Thuun
[view] About PemmeFormerly East-Mirarian.
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPalatalVelar
Nasal m n    
Plosive p t   k
Fricative   s    
Lateral approximant   l    
Approximant     j  
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i i:: i: y y:: y: ʉ ʉ:: ʉ:  
Close-mid e e:: e: ø ø:: ø:   ɤ ɤ:: ɤ: o o:: o:
Near-open æ æ:: æ:    
Open     ɑ ɑ:: ɑ:
Polyphthongs eæ̯:: eæ̯: ey̯:: ey̯: iy̯:: iy̯: øæ̯:: øæ̯: oɑ̯:: oɑ̯: øy̯:: øy̯: oʉ̯:: oʉ̯: æe̯:: æe̯: oi̯:: oi̯: øi̯:: øi̯:
iʉ̯:: iʉ̯: ʉo̯:: ʉo̯: yøi̯:: yøi̯: yæ̯:: yæ̯: æi̯:: æi̯: yi̯:: yi̯: ie̯:: ie̯: eæi̯:: eæi̯: ɤɑi̯:: ɤɑi̯: ɤi̯:: ɤi̯:
iɤ̯:: iɤ̯: oɑi̯:: oɑi̯: iei̯:: iei̯: ei̯:: ei̯: ʉɤ̯:: ʉɤ̯: yø̯:: yø̯: iɤi̯:: iɤi̯: ɑi̯:: ɑi̯: ɑɤ̯:: ɑɤ̯: ɤɑ̯:: ɤɑ̯:
æy̯:: æy̯: ʉi̯:: ʉi̯: ʉɑ̯:: ʉɑ̯: ʉoi̯:: ʉoi̯: ɤʉ̯:: ɤʉ̯: ɑʉ̯:: ɑʉ̯: øæi̯:: øæi̯: ye̯:: ye̯:
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Thuun. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ThuunOrthography [edit]
a
a
/ɑ/
ä
ä
/æ/
e
e
/ɤ/
ë
ë
/e/
i
i
/i/
j
j
/j/
k
k
/k/
l
l
/l/
m
m
/m/
n
n
/n/
ö
ö
/ø/
o
o
/o/
p
p
/p/
s
s
/s/
t
t
/t/
u
u
/ʉ/
ü
y
/y/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
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    Typological information for Thuun

    GendersNone
    Morphological typologyAgglutinative
    Morphosyntactic alignmentNominative/Accusative
    Number of nominal casesEight cases or more
    Pronoun dropping?Yes

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