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|+ Phonemic Consonants | |+ Phonemic Consonants | ||
| − | ! colspan=" | + | ! colspan="2"| || Labial || Alveolar || Post-Alveolar || Palatal || Velar || Uvular || Glottal |
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| − | | colspan=" | + | | colspan="2"|'''nasal''' || m || n || || || || || |
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| − | | rowspan=" | + | | rowspan="2"|'''plosive / affricate''' || <small>'''voiced'''</small> || || d [d̻] || j [dʒ] || || g || || |
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| − | + | | <small>'''voiceless'''</small> || p || t /t̻/ || || cj [cç] || k || c [q] || | |
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| − | | | + | | colspan="2"|'''fricative''' || || s [s̻] || sh [ʃ] || sch [ʂɕ] || kh [x] || || rowspan="2"|h [h - ɦ] |
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| − | | rowspan="2"|''' | + | | rowspan="2"|'''approximant''' || <small>'''central'''</small> || || colspan="2"| r [ɹ-ɾ̻] || || |
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| − | + | | <small>'''lateral'''</small> || || colspan="2"| l || || || || | |
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| − | The rhotic is allophonically realized as a tap. | + | 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. |
| − | [[Category | + | [[Category:Radiant Lands]] |
[[Category:Language]] | [[Category:Language]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:58, 26 May 2017
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
