Tuuma [TUM]
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Tuuma
Tuuma [tu:ma]
Tuuma [tu:ma]
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 6 March 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tuuma
A more recent project of mine focused on creating a language to sound nature but also out of the ordinary. So far, nothing has been thought up regarding background information about the language or its speakers.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | [ɲ]2 | ŋ | ɴ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʼ | t tʼ | k kʼ | q qʼ | ||||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʁ | h | ||||||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | t͡ɬ t͡ɬʼ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Open-mid | [ɛ]1 [ɛ:]2 | [ɔ]3 [ɔ:]4 | ||
Open | a a: | [ɑ]5 [ɑ:]6 |
- uvular, allophone of /i/
- uvular, allophone of /i:/
- uvular, allophone of /u/
- uvular, allophone of /u:/
- uvular, allophone of /a/
- uvular, allophone of /a:/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tuuma. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TuumaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa ah /a/ | Ff if /f/ | Hh hats /h/ | Ii ih /i/ | Jj jut /j/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll il /l/ | LL ll ill /ɬ/ | Mm im /m/ | Nn in /n/ | NC nc inc /ɴ/ |
NG ng ing /ŋ/ | Pp pi /p/ | Qq qu /q/ | Rr ra /ʁ/ | Ss is /s/ | Tt ti /t/ | TL tl tla /t͡ɬ/ | TS ts tsa /t͡s/ | Uu uh /u/ | Ww wa /w/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |