Ta Raonta
| Stonelandic Ta Raonta | |
| Spoken in: | Stoneland (Hajax Raonta) |
| Conworld: | Bazariya (continent) |
| Total speakers: | 15 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Pan-Bazariyan
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| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| Y. Anné | 2001 |
Ta Raonta (literally "Speech One") or Stonelandic is the official language of the Kingdom of Stoneland, a country in the (undiscovered) continent of Bazariya. It is the standardized form of the so-called "King's Speech" which used to be the lingua franca par excellence in Bazariya. Nowadays, it is spoken mainly in Stoneland, and taught all over Bazariya as a means of cultural development.
Phonology
The phonology shown in the tables beneath is that of the official standard, as spoken by news anchors and other role models in society. In home environment, most people use a different accent, depending on the region they come from. Although this pronunciation is widely accepted to be the official one, some independist movements in the Western Region have proposed their own standards.
| Consonants | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | χ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | ts | dz | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximants | w | j | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||||
| Near-high | ||||||||||||
| High-mid | e | o | ||||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||||
| Low-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||||
| Near-low | ||||||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||||
