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''A priori'' conlang of tree-dwelling humans in a magical trilunar world.  Polysynthetic.
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#0000CC" color="#FFFFFF" align="center" |<font color="#FFFFFF"><big>'''Taalen'''</big></font>
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="lightgrey" style="font-size:120%"| Taalen
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| valign="top"|Spoken in:
| unnamed planet
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| valign="top"|Region:
| undecided location
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|-
| valign="top"|Total speakers:
|valign="top"|Spoken in:
| a bunch
|| Sovrandas /soˈvran.dəs/
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| valign="top"|[[Language families and languages|Genetic]]<br>[[Language families and languages|classification]]:
|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
|Linguistic genetics still undefined.
|| The Coil (the Crux universe)
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="lightgrey"|Extra information
|valign="top"|Total speakers:
|| 2.8 million (or something)
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|-
| valign="top"|Author:  
|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
| valign="top"|[[User:Dauyn|Dauyn]] | [[User Talk:Dauyn|✎]]
|| Súren branch of the Sovrandian family
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'''Pronounced /'tɑ.lɛn/.''' <br>
From ''tal'' 'tree' + ''ra'' 'speak' + ''-en'' agentive suffix: 'Treespeaker', used metonymically. If compounded currently instead of anciently, this results in ''tallen'', which is used to indicate the individual Treespeaker (roughly equivalent to a shaman) as opposed to the language.
[[Category: Conlangs]]
{{Taalen}}

Latest revision as of 15:08, 4 November 2012

Taalen
Spoken in: Sovrandas /soˈvran.dəs/
Timeline/Universe: The Coil (the Crux universe)
Total speakers: 2.8 million (or something)
Genealogical classification: Súren branch of the Sovrandian family

Pronounced /'tɑ.lɛn/.
From tal 'tree' + ra 'speak' + -en agentive suffix: 'Treespeaker', used metonymically. If compounded currently instead of anciently, this results in tallen, which is used to indicate the individual Treespeaker (roughly equivalent to a shaman) as opposed to the language.

This article is one of several about the Taalen language.