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 - a]
open
diphthongs	aa [aʌ̯], au [aɔ], ai [ai̯], ei [ei̯]

/u/ is an allophone of /o/ and /ʌ/ is an allophone of /a/.

Consonants

Phonemic Consonants

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

The rhotic is allophonically realized as a tap.