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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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| ==External== | | |valign="top"|Spoken in: |
| I started working on Taalen in the summer of 2000. Anticipating grad school, and unhappy with where Aelya was going, I started over. There's a lot of Aelya's aesthetic in Taalen - one might say that Aelya evolved into Taalen, but not definitely not in a diachronic way!
| | || Sovrandas /soˈvran.dəs/ |
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| ==Internal== | | |valign="top"|Timeline/Universe: |
| | | || The Coil (the Crux universe) |
| =Phonology=
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| ==Consonants==
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| Taalen's phonetic inventory is fairly simple, and should be familiar to any English speaker, with a few exceptions. The voiceless nasals, bilabial fricatives as well as palatal and velar fricatives, and the lateral fricatives are likely familiar from languages such as Welsh, Japanese, and German. The palatal plosive is unusual, and most easily approximated by English speakers with /ts/. The dental approximant is the standard English <r>, and the dental flap can be heard in English words like <water> /wa4.r=/. Note also the presence of a syllabic resonant
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| ! || Bilabial || Labiodental || Dental || Alveolar || Postalveolar || Palatal || Velar || Glottal
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| | '''Plosive''' || /p/ /b/ || || || /t/ /d/ || || /c/ || /k/ /g/ | |
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| | '''Nasal''' || /m_0/ /m/ || || || /n_0/ /n/ || || || /N_0/ /N/
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| | '''Fricative''' || /p\/ /B/ || /f/ /v/ || /T/ /D/ || /s/ || /S/ || /C/ || /x/ /G/ || /h/
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| | '''Approx.''' || || /w/ || || /r\/ || || /j/
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| | '''Tap''' || || || || /4/
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| | '''Lat. App.''' || || || || /l/ || || | |
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| | '''Lat. Fric.''' || || || || /K/ /K\/ | |
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| Some resonants may also be syllabic: /m=/ /n=/ /r\=/ /l=/ as in <bottom>, <button>, <butter>, and <bottle>.
| | '''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. |
| ==Vowels==
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| ! || '''Front''' || '''Central''' || '''Back'''
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| | '''Close''' || /i/ /I/ || || /U/ /u/ ||
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| | '''Close-mid''' || /e/ /2/ || || /o/ ||
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| | '''Open-mid''' || /E/ /{/ || /V/ or /@/ || ||
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| | '''Open''' || /a/ || || /Q/||
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| ==Diphthongs==
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| Taalen only possesses five diphthongs, all rising: /aI/ /eI/ /oI/ /aU/ and /oU/.
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| =Orthography=
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| In general, the phonemes of Taalen are represented in romanisation by their obvious counterparts: <t> is /t/. Exceptions:
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| | ts || /c/ || || c || /k/ || || mh || /m_0/
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| | nh || /n_0/ || || f || /f/ or /p\/ || v || /v/ or /B/
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| | th || /T/ || || dh || /D/ || || sh || /S/
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| | h || /h/, /C/ or /x/ || || gh || /G/ || || u || /u/ or /w/
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| | r || /4/ or /r\/ || || lh || /K/ or /K\/
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