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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.
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.


According to a post from October 24, 2000, the consonant phonemes of Tech are:
According to a post from July 9, 2001, the consonant phonemes of Old Tech are:


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===Vowels===
===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.
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. According to the aforementioned post from July 9, 2001:


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==Grammar==
Little can be found on Tech grammar.  But apparently, the language is heavily fusional, using consonantal roots similar to Semitic, ablaut and affixation.
==External links==
* [http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0002D&L=CONLANG&P=R1624&D=0&H=0&O=T&T=0&m=21306 oh no, not Tech phonology again] from February 23, 2000
* [http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0107B&L=CONLANG&P=R3219&m=46897 Semi-official Tech presentation: I. Phonology] from July 9, 2001
* [http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0212D&L=CONLANG&P=R4801&m=65495 A Tech FAQ] from December 25, 2002
* [http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0403D&L=CONLANG&P=R9702&m=106050 finally, something besides phonology in Tech...] from March 27, 2004
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[[Category:Conlangs]]
[[Category: Kitchen sink conlangs]]

Latest revision as of 12:24, 22 April 2013

Tech
Spoken in: various countries
Timeline/Universe: Danny Wier's future history
Total speakers: unknown
Genealogical classification: Nostratic
Tech
Basic word order: VSO
Morphological type: fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: mixed
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.

According to a post from July 9, 2001, the consonant phonemes of Old Tech are:

  Bilabial Alveolar or dental Post-
alveolar
Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
central lateral
Plosive ejective     ʈʼ     ʔ
voiceless p t     ʈ   k q    
voiced b d     ɖ   ɡ ɢ    
Affricate ejective   tsʼ tɬʼ tʃʼ            
voiceless   ts            
voiced   dz            
Fricative voiceless   s ɬ ʃ ʂ       ħ h
voiced                 ʕ  
Nasal m n     ɳ ɲ 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. According to the aforementioned post from July 9, 2001:

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

Grammar

Little can be found on Tech grammar. But apparently, the language is heavily fusional, using consonantal roots similar to Semitic, ablaut and affixation.

External links