Tsaban [APC]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
TsabaOfficial
TsabaOfficialSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Tsaban
Note that this language is still under development, the information here could change!
Tsaban is the official language of Tsaba and a member of the proposed West Alpic superfamily. Like its West Alpic relatives, 
Legim and 
Erdköl, Tsaban has gender, a robust case system, SOV word order, and an array of modal suffixes.
Tsaban is generally agglutinative, strongly head-final, and makes frequent use of converbs.
The most recent version of the dictionary can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17PK1TpI5nBaPdF09JkEn-YDJZuXgbM7vvqHDZacax1g/edit?usp=sharing
Tsaban is the official language of
Tsaba and a member of the proposed West Alpic superfamily. Like its West Alpic relatives, Legim and Erdköl, Tsaban has gender, a robust case system, SOV word order, and an array of modal suffixes. Tsaban is generally agglutinative, strongly head-final, and makes frequent use of converbs.
The most recent version of the dictionary can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17PK1TpI5nBaPdF09JkEn-YDJZuXgbM7vvqHDZacax1g/edit?usp=sharing
Sample of TsabanCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ kʼʷ kʷ | g gʷ | ʔ1 | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x2 xʷ | ɣ ɣʷ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- word-final allophone of plosives and /h/
- word-final allophone of /ɣ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ai | au |
- /a/ and /o/ reduce to /ə/ when unstressed
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tsaban. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TsabanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ə/1 | Áá/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | GHW ghw/ɣʷ/ | GW gw/gʷ/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/2 | KHW khw/xʷ/ | KW kw/kʷ/ | K̓ k̓/kʼ/ | K̓W k̓w/kʼʷ/ | Ll/l/ |
| LH lh/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/œ/ | P̓ p̓/pʼ/ | Rr/r/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | T̓ t̓/tʼ/ | Üü/y/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/ɨ/ | ʔ/ʔ/3 | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- /a/ and /o/ reduce to /ə/ when unstressed
- word-final allophone of /ɣ/
- word-final allophone of plosives and /h/
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