Tefili [TEF]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tefili
Tefili is a language spoken on a small, previously unknown island. The language does not so far appear to have any relatives, though it is possible that some of the other languages on other recently discovered islands could be of some relation.
Language family relationships
[view] About TefilianTefili and all related dialects/daughter/sister languages.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | [m̥]1 | m | n | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]2 | f | s | ʃ | [ɕ]3 | [ħ]4 | h | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral flap | [ɺ]5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [ʍ]6 | w | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | [ɯ]1 | u | |||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]2 | [ʊ]3 | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]4 | [ɔ]5 | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tefili. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TefiliOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Cc/ʃ/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
I came to this island...
An entry on the discovery of the Tefilian Islands
21-Nov-16 20:06
