Tasaqi [TSQ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tasaqi
Tasaqi is a naturalistic artlang inspired by Japanese, Hawaiian, Yoruba, various other Austronesian languages, Mandarin, and some South East Asian languages. It has a small phonology with 13 consonants and 5 vowel qualities which contrast short and long, and an abundance of geminate consonants but restricted consonant codas. It is topic prominent, and has serial verb constructions, noun incorporation, and is largely analytic.
Language family relationships
[view] About TasaqiThe Tasaqi language family is an isolate family that only consists of Tasaqi. It has unknown origins, and is related to the dialects spoken off the coast by various island hunter gatherer communities
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ŋ | [ɴ]1 | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]2 | t̪ | [d̪]3 | k | [g]4 | q | |||||||||||||
Fricative | s | [ɕ]5 | [ç]6 | ʁ | h | |||||||||||||||
Affricate | [t͡ɕ]7 | [d͡ʑ]8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | ɻ | j |
- before uvulars, allophone of /ŋ/
- word medially, allophone of /p/
- word medially, allophone of /t̪/
- word medially, allophone of /k/
- before /i/ or /i:/, allophone of /s/
- before /i/ and /i:/, allophone of /h/
- before /i/ or /i:/, allophone of /t̪/
- word medially and before /i/ or /i:/, allophone of /t̪/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Close-mid | e e: | |||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]3 [ɛ:]4 | |||||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]5 | |||||||||
Open | ɑ ɑ: |
Polyphthongs | [əu]6 | [əi]7 |
- when unstressed, allophone of /i/
- when unstressed, allophone of /u/
- after a uvular, allophone of /e/
- after a uvular, allophone of /e:/
- when unstressed, allophone of /ɑ/
- when after uvulars, allophone of /u/
- when after uvulars, allophone of /i/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tasaqi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TasaqiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
a/ɑ/, [ɐ]1 | aa/ɑ:/ | ch[t͡ɕ]2, [d͡ʑ]3 | e/e/, [ɛ]4 | ee/e:/, [ɛ:]5 | g/ŋ/ | h/h/, [ç]6 | i/i/, [əi]7, [ɪ]8 | ii/i:/ | j/j/ | k/k/, [g]9 | l/ɻ/ |
m/m/ | n/n̪/, [ɴ]10 | p/p/, [b]11 | q/q/ | r/ʁ/ | s/s/ | sh[ɕ]12 | t/t̪/, [d̪]13 | u/u/, [əu]14, [ʊ]15 | uu/u:/ | v/ʋ/ | y/ə/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- when unstressed
- before /i/ or /i:/
- word medially and before /i/ or /i:/
- after a uvular
- after a uvular
- before /i/ and /i:/
- when after uvulars
- when unstressed
- word medially
- before uvulars
- word medially
- before /i/ or /i:/
- word medially
- when after uvulars
- when unstressed
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