Tatan
From Series Bible
Tatan is the native language of the Tagani, also called the Ashikah, "born of wind and fire", a group of desert clans.
Phonology
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
Labial | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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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.