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! rowspan="2" | [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! colspan="2" | [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] or [[Dental consonant|dental]]
! colspan="2" | [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] or [[Dental consonant|dental]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Alveolo-palatal consonant|Alveolo-<br>palatal]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br>alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br>alveolar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
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! rowspan="3" | [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
! rowspan="3" | [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
!<small>[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
!<small>[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
| {{IPA|*/p̕/}}<ref>These phonemes do not occur in some or most reconstructions of Proto-Nostratic. They are omitted or put in brackets in the "Sound correspondences" table below, except for */p/.</ref>
| pʼ
| {{IPA|*/t̕/}}
| tʼ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| ʈʼ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| kʼ
| qʼ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/k̕/}}
| ʔ
| {{IPA|*/q̕/}}
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/ʔ/}}
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
!<small> [[Voiceless consonant|voiceless]]</small>
!<small> [[Voiceless consonant|voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA|*/p/}}
| p
| {{IPA|*/t/}}
| t
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| ʈ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/k/}}
| k
| {{IPA|*/q/}}
| q
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
!<small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
!<small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
| {{IPA|*/b/}}
| b
| {{IPA|*/d/}}
| d
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| ɖ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/ɡ/}}
| ɡ
| {{IPA|*/ɢ/}}
| ɢ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
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!<small>ejective</small>
!<small>ejective</small>
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/ts̕/}}
| tsʼ
| {{IPA|*/tɬ̕/}}
| tɬʼ
| {{IPA|*/tɕ̕/}}¹
| tʃʼ
| {{IPA|*/tʃ̕/}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
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!<small>voiceless</small>
!<small>voiceless</small>
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/ts/}}
| ts
| {{IPA|*/tɬ/}}
| tɬ
| {{IPA|*/tɕ/}}¹
| tʃ
| {{IPA|*/tʃ/}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
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!<small>voiced</small>
!<small>voiced</small>
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/dz/}}
| dz
| {{IPA|*/dɮ/}}¹
| dɮ
| {{IPA|*/dʑ/}}¹
| dʒ
| {{IPA|*/dʒ/}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
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!<small>voiceless</small>
!<small>voiceless</small>
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/s/}}
| s
| {{IPA|*/ɬ/}}
| ɬ
| {{IPA|*/ɕ/}}¹
| ʃ
| {{IPA|*/ʃ/}}
| ʂ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/χ/}}
| ħ
| {{IPA|*/ħ/}}
| h
| {{IPA|*/h/}}
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
!<small>voiced</small>
!<small>voiced</small>
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| z
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| ʒ
| ʐ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
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| ʕ
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/ʁ/}}
| {{IPA|*/ʕ/}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
|- align="center"
|- align="center"
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA|*/m/}}
| m
| {{IPA|*/n/}}
| n
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/nʲ/}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| ɳ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/ŋ/}}
| ŋ
| &nbsp;
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! colspan="2" | [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
! colspan="2" | [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/r/}}
| r
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/rʲ/}}¹
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| ɽ
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
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|- align="center"
|- align="center"
! colspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
! colspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| w
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| l
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/l/}}
| ɭ
| {{IPA|*/lʲ/}}
| j
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| {{IPA|*/j/}}
| {{IPA|*/w/}}
| &nbsp;
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|}
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===Vowels===
===Vowels===

Revision as of 11:46, 20 September 2010

Tech
Spoken in: various countries
Timeline/Universe: Danny Wier's future history
Total speakers: unknown
Genealogical classification: Nostratic
Tech
Basic word order:
Morphological type:
Morphosyntactic alignment:
Created by:
Danny Wier 1997-

Tech is a conlang by Danny Wier, spoken by a kind of Elves in a near-future world and based on the Nostratic hypothesis. The language is only known from various posts to the CONLANG mailing list, according to which it is a very complex language with a large phoneme inventory; it has been compared to Ithkuil and characterized as a kitchen sink conlang.

Phonology

Consonants

Tech is famed for its rich consonant inventory. One version Danny Wier posted on February 23, 2000 included as many as 327 consonants, involving secondary articulations such as palatalization and labialization. Later, Danny systematized the consonant inventory and arrived at a more moderate (though still rich) inventory of phonemes, with most of the "phonemes" of earlier incarnations being merely allophones of these phonemes.

  Bilabial Alveolar or dental Post-
alveolar 		Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
central lateral
Plosive ejective pʼ tʼ     ʈʼ   kʼ qʼ   ʔ
voiceless p t     ʈ   k q    
voiced b d     ɖ   ɡ ɢ    
Affricate ejective   tsʼ tɬʼ tʃʼ            
voiceless   ts tɬ tʃ            
voiced   dz dɮ dʒ          
Fricative voiceless   s ɬ ʃ ʂ       ħ h
voiced   z   ʒ ʐ       ʕ  
Nasal m n     ɳ   ŋ      
Trill   r     ɽ          
Approximant w   l   ɭ j        

Vowels

Like the consonant inventory, the vowel inventory of Tech has for long been in flux, with (again) very large inventories having been considered by the author.

Front Central Back
Close i   u
Mid e ə o
Open   a  
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