Tirina [TNA]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in:
SanmraOfficial
TuanmaliOfficial
Yanatic IslandsOfficial
DinaOfficial
OshaniramaRegional
SanmraOfficial TuanmaliOfficial Yanatic IslandsOfficial DinaOfficial OshaniramaRegionalSpecies
Human/humanoid
About Tirina
Tirina is a language spoken by a species of non-humans that inhabits modern day Earth, which is a nice way of saying that the magical elves have a word that means "Xbox controller".
I technically have had some form of Tirina around since 2003, but the original form was just a poorly-done English relex, followed by abandoning it for a few years, so the current form has really only been around since early 2012. Tirina is more or less functional from a grammatical and syntactical perspective, now it's really just a matter of fleshing out the vocabulary and working out how people actually speak as opposed to formally writing or speaking.
Current areas of focus: vocabulary, slang and informal phrasing, fleshing out allophony
I technically have had some form of Tirina around since 2003, but the original form was just a poorly-done English relex, followed by abandoning it for a few years, so the current form has really only been around since early 2012. Tirina is more or less functional from a grammatical and syntactical perspective, now it's really just a matter of fleshing out the vocabulary and working out how people actually speak as opposed to formally writing or speaking.
Current areas of focus: vocabulary, slang and informal phrasing, fleshing out allophony
Sample of Tirina[view] Idarato sa. Ton towuskalin. Totifıdlin sa tern. Toalenahida nuri ahalen ne (Miswuskale uye onid tern!) Toalenahida ahalen nuri sa (Mispa'al nuri dini Werunos.) Tomekearnda sa eso dini Werunos onid enpa'al nuri dini. (Mispela, hetan Werunos!) Toasinasda dini Werunos nuri dinili. (Todohitifıd frosa?) (Totifıd tern.) (Mofranisale lid) toalen...[view all texts]
Sound samples in Tirina
Some sound samples of Tirina. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Misayarda! Tokesında yes sotao.
Stop! You violated the law.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Stop! You violated the law.Warning: Link provided is not a supported filetype (wav, ogg, mp3). You can navigate to the link provided at your own risk.
Yani: Prala!
Uteas Prinafonda: Dudarn ni yes?
Yani: Las, totifıdal hasu kola orelolir?
Uteas Prin...
Johnny: Hi. Flower Shop Clerk: Can I help you? Johnny: Yeah, can I have a dozen red roses, please?...
Johnny: Hi. Flower Shop Clerk: Can I help you? Johnny: Yeah, can I have a dozen red roses, please?...
Kitimo eki darida.
Sleep is for the weak!
Sleep is for the weak!
Analenahilin Tirina!
I speak English
I speak English
Yes sunhi? Fin as kawi?
Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?
Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?
Language family relationships
Language treeGarsenian
⤷ Garsen
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Old Tirina
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Tirina
⤷ Garsen
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Old Tirina⤷
Tirina[view] About GarsenianThe Garsenian language family's only surviving descendant is Modern Tirina. The "founding" language of the family is commonly called Garsen, but probably should more properly be called "Proto-Garsenian" or "Proto-Tirina".
At any rate, Old Tirina w...
At any rate, Old Tirina w...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t̪ | d̪ | k | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]2 | f | s | [z]3 | [ħ]4 | h | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r] | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- realization of /n/ before /k/
- realization of /f/ before /r/.
- realization of /s/ before /d/ WHEN INFLECTING VERBS
- idk, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tirina. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TirinaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| ' ' /ʔ/ | aa Aa an /a/ | dd Dd da /d̪/ | ee Ee e /e/ | ff Ff fi /f/, [ɸ]1 | hh Hh he /h/, [ħ]2 | ij Iı ıda /ɪ/ | ii Ii i /i/ | kk Kk kıdro /k/ | ll Ll li /l/ |
| mm Mm mıdro /m/ | nn Nn nu /n/, [ŋ]3 | oo Oo o /o/ | pp Pp pa /p/ | rr Rr ro /ɾ/, [r] | ss Ss se /s/, [z]4 | tt Tt to /t̪/ | uu Uu u /u/ | ww Ww we /w/ | yy Yy yu /j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- realization of /f/ before /r/.
- idk
- realization of /n/ before /k/
- realization of /s/ before /d/ WHEN INFLECTING VERBS
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