Tatan

Tatan is the native language of the Tagani, also called the Ashikah, "born of wind and fire", a group of desert clans.

Phonology

Vowels

Phonemic Vowels

	front	central / back
close	i	o [o - u]
close-mid
open-mid	e [ɛ]	a [ʌ - ä]
open
diphthongs	aa [aʌ̯], au [aɔ], ai [ai̯], ei [ei̯]

The phonemes ʌ and u are raised allophones of o and a.

Consonants

Phonemic Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
nasal		m	n
plosive / affricate	voiced		d [d̻]	j [dʒ]		g
	voiceless	p	t /t̻/		cj [cç]	k	c [q]
fricative			s [s̻]	sh [ʃ]	sch [ʂɕ]	kh [x]		h [h - ɦ]
approximant	central		r [ɹ-ɾ̻]
	lateral		l

The rhotic is allophonically realized as a tap. The phoneme sch used to be a consonant cluster of stʃ but has become a phonemic fricative sequence.