Tunutuan [TIU]
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Tunutuan
Tunutū La'au [tunutu: laʔau]
TunutuanTunutū La'au [tunutu: laʔau]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tunutuan
Tunutuan is a regional language spoken primarily in the Tujuan islands of Tunutu and Yüwtü as well to a smaller extent in Yitü. It is a member of the Tujuan branch of the Sanju-Jutean family.
Language family relationships
Language treeTujuan
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Proto-Tujuan
⤷ North Tujuan
⤷ Tunutuan
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Proto-Tujuan⤷ North Tujuan
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TunutuanPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p: | t t: | k k: | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 [ɸ:]2 | (s) | (ɕ) | [ç]3 [ç:]4 | h [h:]5 | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | (t͡ɕ) | q͡χ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | [w]6 | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]7 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /ʋ/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | (y) | u u: | |||
| Mid | e̞ e̞: | o̞ o̞: | ||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | iu | äu | äi | o̞i |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tunutuan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TunutuanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Āā/ä:/ | Aa/ä/ | Cc/t͡ɕ/1 | Ēē/e̞:/ | Ee/e̞/ | Hh/h/, [ɸ], [ç], [h:], [ɸ:], [ç:] | Ii/i/ | Īī/i:/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/, [ɾ] | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ōō/o̞:/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q͡χ/ | Ss/s/2 |
| Šš/ɕ/3 | Tt/t/ | Ūū/u:/ | Üü/y/4 | Uu/u/ | Ww/ʋ/, [w] | Yy/j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
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