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| {{PAGENAME}} has a distinctive intonation paradigm, similar to Irish English or Valspeak.
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| *In declarative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word (if there is no focused constituent, the last word) has a lower pitch than the immediately preceding syllable. ("...mid ꜜ LOW mid...") This originates from discursive uptalk in older forms of {{PAGENAME}}, which has since generalized to all declarative sentences. A few relatively isolated accents do not use this pattern.
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| *In interrogative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word has a higher pitch than the syllable immediately before. ("... mid ꜛ HIGH mid ... ?")
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| *In exclamations, the pattern is "... mid ꜜ LOW-HIGH mid ... !", possibly with a gradual drop to low pitch in the end. Angry or indignant questions also use an exclamatory intonation.
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Revision as of 02:45, 26 July 2017
Tłkaw is a modern Zoomic language. It's inspired by Irish and German (it's the latest incarnation of my Tíogall and Wiebian).
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.
Vowels
/a i u a: i: u: ai au ə/ a i u â î û ai au e
/ə/ is a common outcome of vowel reduction and can only occur in unstressed syllables.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Other resources