Teşkami [TSM]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Teşkami
a fairly analytic/weakly inflecting language with a minimalist-ish phonology
action nominalizations are fun! slowly writing up stuff about the grammar as it solidifies.
some people might find it boring, but they are wrong and it's actually them who are boring. how bout that!
→ şo ki deşen adel!
action nominalizations are fun! slowly writing up stuff about the grammar as it solidifies.
some people might find it boring, but they are wrong and it's actually them who are boring. how bout that!
→ şo ki deşen adel!
Sample of Teşkami[view] Pála yaşman ima mei lá daha letalkim!
Stop talking and get me my hamburger![view all texts]
Stop talking and get me my hamburger![view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | [x]2 | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- syllable-finally, allophone of /h/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Close-mid | e: | o | ||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]3 | |||||||||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | oʊ |
- in closed syllables, allophone of /i/
- in closed syllables, allophone of /u/
- word-finally, allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Teşkami. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TeşkamiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Áá/a:/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Éé/e:/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/, [x]1 |
Ii/i/, [ɪ]2 | Íí/i:/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]3 | Oo/o/ | Óó/oʊ/ | Pp/p/ |
Rr/ɾ/ | Şş/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Úú/u:/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ]4 | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- syllable-finally
- in closed syllables
- before velars
- in closed syllables
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