Tourn [TRN]
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[Deactivated User] on 3 March 2015
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tourn
generally isolating, vowel harmony across some words which I think is interesting
Sample of Tourn[view] vuy aseg nath. / ws ttwrn vey bay samn aseg twtt. ws ttwrn vey bay samn ak twtt sares kem. / mosc soyth, srer es yaras tyanr scav byuy ttur ak twtt. mosc soyth, onm byuy bay ttur ak twtt [again]. an [second part] byuy bay ttur ak twtt. mosc soyth? / mosc soyth, onm byuy bay ttur ak [write]? / [language] byey bay samn ak twtt? / / ayr. [morn...[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | d | k | g | |||||||
| Fricative | v | ð | s | z | ||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ ɹ̩1 | [j]2 | ɰ | |||||||||
- occurs rarely as a syllable nuclei
- at end of words, allophone of /ɰ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ̞ | |||||||
| Mid | ə [ə˞]1 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ̝ | |||||||
| Open | a [a˞]2 | ɑ [ɑ˞]3 | ||||||
- allophone of /ə/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tourn. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TournOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Ee/ɛ̝/ | Kk/g/ | KK kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɑ/ | Rr/ɹ/, /ɹ̩/1 |
| Ss/z/ | SC sc/s/ | Tt/d/ | TH th/ð/ | TT tt/t/ | Uu/ə/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/ʊ̞/ | Yy/ɰ/, [j]2 |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- occurs rarely as a syllable nuclei
- at end of words
