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| align="center" colspan="2" width="100" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Glottal''' | | align="center" colspan="2" width="100" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Glottal''' | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Nasal'''||align="center" colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Nasal'''||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:#ffff80;"|/m/ <m>||colspan="2" style="background:#ffff80;"| ||align="center" colspan="6" style="background:#ffb04a;"|/n/ <n>||colspan="2" style="background:#ffb04a;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ffb04a;"| ||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:Salmon"|{{IPA|[ŋ]}} <g>||colspan="2" style="background:Salmon"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Plosive'''||align="center" colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Plosive'''||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:#ef87a9;"|/p/ <nowiki><p></nowiki>||colspan="2" style="background:#ef87a9;"| ||align="center" colspan="6" style="background:LightPink"|/t/ <t>||colspan="2" style="background:LightPink"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumOrchid"| ||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:CornflowerBlue"|/k/ <k>||colspan="2" style="background:CornflowerBlue"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:CornflowerBlue"| ||style="background:CornflowerBlue"| ||style="background:Black"| || | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Affricate'''||colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Affricate'''||colspan="2" style="background:#ef87a9;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ef87a9;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumOrchid"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumOrchid"| ||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:MediumOrchid"|{{IPA|/tʃ/}} <c>||colspan="2" style="background:MediumOrchid"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumOrchid"| ||colspan="2" style="background:CornflowerBlue"| ||colspan="2" style="background:CornflowerBlue"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:PowderBlue"| ||colspan="2" style="background:PowderBlue"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fricative'''||style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fricative'''||style="background:MediumAquamarine"| ||style="background:PaleGreen"| ||align="center" width="50" style="background:MediumAquamarine"|[f] <f>||width="50" style="background:PaleGreen"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumAquamarine"| ||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:MediumSeaGreen"|/s/ <nowiki><s></nowiki>||colspan="2" style="background:MediumSeaGreen"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumSeaGreen"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:DarkKhaki"| ||width="100" colspan="2" style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||rowspan=2 style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||rowspan=2 style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||rowspan=2 style="background:PowderBlue"| ||align="center" rowspan=2 colspan="2" style="background:PowderBlue"|/h/ <h> | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Approximant'''||colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Approximant'''||colspan="2" style="background:PaleGreen"| ||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:PaleGreen"|{{IPA|/ʋ/}} <w>||align="center" colspan="6" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||align="center" colspan="2" style="background:DarkKhaki"|/j/ <j>||colspan="2" style="background:PaleGreen"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:PowderBlue"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Trill'''||colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Trill'''||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||align="center" colspan="6" style="background:#da9959;"|[r] <r>||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tap or flap'''||colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Tap or flap'''||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="6" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#da9959;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Lat. fricative'''||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="6" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Lat. fricative'''||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="6" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"|  | ||
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| align="left" width="100" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Lat. approximant'''||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||align="center" colspan="6" style="background: | | align="left" width="100" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Lat. approximant'''||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||align="center" colspan="6" style="background:#ccb8a4;"|/l/ <l>||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Lateral flap'''||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="6" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Lateral flap'''||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="6" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:#ccb8a4;"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"| ||colspan="2" style="background:Black"|  | ||
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| align="center" colspan="2" width="100" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Palatal-velar''' | | align="center" colspan="2" width="100" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Palatal-velar''' | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fricative'''||style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fricative'''||style="background:PowderBlue"| ||style="background:DarkKhaki"| ||colspan="2" style="background:PaleGreen"| ||colspan="2" style="background:MediumSeaGreen"| ||colspan="2" style="background:PowderBlue"|  | ||
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| align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Approximant'''||colspan="2" style="background: | | align="left" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Approximant'''||colspan="2" style="background:DarkKhaki"| ||colspan="2" style="background:PaleGreen"| ||colspan="2" style="background:DarkKhaki"| ||colspan="2" style="background:PaleGreen"|  | ||
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Revision as of 05:15, 8 September 2009
Pastok is an auxlang, though not one that actually strives to become an international language. It is only created for the sheer challenge of creating a conlang that could potentially be spoken by as many people as possible on Earth. For this reason the phonemic inventory is rather small, and several phonological constraints exist for ease of pronunciation. Yet homonyms are avoided at all costs. Pastok has borrowed all of its words from other languages. There are 49 languages that have been especially prioritized in word borrowing and phonology: Modern Standard Arabic, Mossi (Mòoré), Yoruba, Swahili, Armenian, Albanian, Tamil, Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Mongolian, Hungarian, Finnish, Vietnamese, Indonesian/Malay, Mandarin, Burmese, Thai, Quiché (K'iche'), Quechua, (Paraguayan) Guaraní, Tok Pisin, Tashelhiyt, Hausa, Oromo, Fula, Akan (Twi dialect), Kanuri, Bambara, Telugu, (White) Hmong, Persian, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, English, Russian, Ancient Greek, Portuguese, Bengali, French, Japanese, German, Punjabi, Javanese, Marathi, Korean, Italian, Wu (Shanghai dialect), Cantonese (Canton dialect). All major language families, and major branches of the largest families, are present among these 49 languages.
Phonology
Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | ||||||||||||||
Nasal | /m/ <m> | /n/ <n> | [ŋ] <g> | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | /p/ <p> | /t/ <t> | /k/ <k> | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Affricate | /tʃ/ <c> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fricative | [f] <f> | /s/ <s> | /h/ <h> | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | /ʋ/ <w> | /j/ <j> | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Trill | [r] <r> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tap or flap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lat. fricative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lat. approximant | /l/ <l> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lateral flap |
Labial-palatal | Labial-velar | Alveolo-palatal | Palatal-velar | |||||
Fricative | ||||||||
Approximant |
Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |||||||
Close | /i/ <i> | /u/ <u> | |||||||||
Near-close | |||||||||||
Close-mid | |||||||||||
Mid | /e/ <e> | /o/ <o> | |||||||||
Open-mid | |||||||||||
Near-open | |||||||||||
Open | /a/ <a> |