Telufakaru [TLF]
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Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Telufakaru
Telufakaru (lit. "writespeak") is an engineered personal language that tries to break one of the most common rule of language creation: speak it before you write it.
The spoken and written form of Telufakaru are a single, inseparable entity. Telufakaru script is a logographic abugida where symbols of each syllables on a word are written concatenated together in a dynamic but analytical manner that makes every combination of syllables its own unique glyph. This unique nature of the script influences the language's many aspects, from the morphology, grammar, to lexicon: a word for something is its own visual onomatopoeia. The implication of this system is that a native speaker can immediately make rough visualization of something they've never seen before, just from hearing the word.
Some features:
(C)V(V)(C) syllable structure
Nonconcatenative morphology
Head-initial (mostly)
SVO primary word order
(somewhat) Austronesian alignment with voice compounding construction
Voice-specific verbs / verb-dependent word order
Lots of apophony, reduplication, and consonant gemination
Two number systems (decimal and base-32 sub-base-2-truncated)
(I wish I could include the writing system here since it will make the language 999x more make sense but due to the nature of the script it's unfortunately unfeasible for now)
The spoken and written form of Telufakaru are a single, inseparable entity. Telufakaru script is a logographic abugida where symbols of each syllables on a word are written concatenated together in a dynamic but analytical manner that makes every combination of syllables its own unique glyph. This unique nature of the script influences the language's many aspects, from the morphology, grammar, to lexicon: a word for something is its own visual onomatopoeia. The implication of this system is that a native speaker can immediately make rough visualization of something they've never seen before, just from hearing the word.
Some features:
(C)V(V)(C) syllable structure
Nonconcatenative morphology
Head-initial (mostly)
SVO primary word order
(somewhat) Austronesian alignment with voice compounding construction
Voice-specific verbs / verb-dependent word order
Lots of apophony, reduplication, and consonant gemination
Two number systems (decimal and base-32 sub-base-2-truncated)
(I wish I could include the writing system here since it will make the language 999x more make sense but due to the nature of the script it's unfortunately unfeasible for now)
Sample of Telufakaru[view] Sa ahra onumami ka ahra gagane / Ko qɛhɛŋi udae na oi icanne / Nai laiha vahaⲋ oɲais ɲifa ya / Yu mau tora oi, zka besa imo
Because the season I like is a short thing / It melted away without me noticing / Alone in this moving scenery / I stand still, and think of you[view all texts]
Because the season I like is a short thing / It melted away without me noticing / Alone in this moving scenery / I stand still, and think of you[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | ʔ1 [ʔˤ]2 | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | x | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- phonemic and also allophone of /k/ in coda
- allophone of /q/ in coda
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Telufakaru. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TelufakaruOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa avva /a/ | Dd idae /d/ | Rr iru /ɾ/ | Nn niɛ /n/ | Ii illi /i/ | Jj ejai /d͡ʒ/ | Gg egau /g/ | Vv evaɛ /v/ | Mm mei /m/ | Ee emme /e/ |
| Hh uhi /h/ | Ff ufae /f/ | Ww uwaɛ /w/ | Tt tui /t/ | Ɲɲ ɲue /ɲ/ | Uu uɲɲu /u/ | Ⲋⲋ ⲋɛi /ʃ/ | Yy ɛyae /j/ | Pp ɛpau /p/ | Bb ɛbai /b/ |
| Qq ɛqe /q/ | Xx xɛu /x/ | Ɛɛ ɛyyɛ /ə/ | Zz zie /z/ | Ll liu /l/ | Ŋŋ iŋaɛ /ŋ/ | Cc ceu /t͡ʃ/ | Kk ekɛ /k/ | Ss suɛ /s/ | Oo otto /ɔ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
