Tesmaltese [TTS]
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Language type
International Auxiliary Language (IAL)
Place & SpeakersTesmaltese is spoken by a population of 2,554,918 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tesmaltese
Tesmaltese is a Uralic language spoken by the Tesmaltese people of Tesmaltin. It is the national language of the country and also serves as an official language of the European Union
Tesmiotese morphology has been deeply influenced by Hungarian, Arabic and the Romance languages, namely Italian and Sicilian.
The Hungarian base comprises around 70% of the Tesmaltese vocabulary, especially words that denote basic ideas and the function words, and about one-tenth of the vocabulary is derived from Arabic and standard Italian, Sicilian, Pandish and English make up between 6% and 20% of the vocabulary.
Tesmiotese morphology has been deeply influenced by Hungarian, Arabic and the Romance languages, namely Italian and Sicilian.
The Hungarian base comprises around 70% of the Tesmaltese vocabulary, especially words that denote basic ideas and the function words, and about one-tenth of the vocabulary is derived from Arabic and standard Italian, Sicilian, Pandish and English make up between 6% and 20% of the vocabulary.
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Language family relationships
Language treeUralic
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Mansic
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Tesmaltese
⤷ Proto-Uralic
⤷ Finno-Ugric
⤷ Mansic
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Tesmaltese[view] About UralicThe Uralic languages /jʊˈrælɨk/ (sometimes called Uralian /jʊˈreɪliən/ languages) constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, ...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]1 | ʝ | [h] | [ɦ] | ɧ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j] | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ʝ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y | u | |||||
| Near-close | ʏ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Mid | (ə)1 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɪɛ | ɪo | ɪa |
- allophone of /ɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tesmaltese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TesmalteseOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a a /ɑ/ | á á /a/ | b bé /b/ | c cé /t͡s/ | č čé /ʈ͡ʂ/ | cs cs /t͡ʃ/ | d d /d/ | dž džé /ɖ͡ʐ/ | dz dzé /d͡z/ | dzs dzsé /d͡ʒ/ | e e /ɛ/ |
| é é /e/1 | f éf /f/ | g g /g/ | gy gyé /ɟ/ | h[h] | í í /i/ | i i /i/ | ij ij /ɧ/ | j[j] | k ká /k/ | l lá /l/ |
| m m /m/ | n ná /n/ | ny ny /ɲ/ | o o /o/ | ö ö /ø/ | p pé /p/ | r[r] | s s /ʃ/ | sz esz /s/ | t t /t/ | ty tyé /c/ |
| u u /u/ | ü ü /y/ | ú ú /u/2 | v vé /v/ | w w /w/ | y yá /ʏ/ | z zé /z/ | zs zsé /ʒ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
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