Toli

Toli / Modern Toli
Language family	Iuta-Karax Karax Yrilhs Fantoli Tixtoli Kretoli Atoliax Modern Toli
Era	Since 998(AD)
Writing system	Toli script, Latin
Official status
Spoken in	Aprux Mexyrhat
Speaker
Demonym	Tolifax
Number of speakers	83
Technical information
Usage	Official and cultural language
Language code	MTL

Toli (endonym: Toli /tɔli/) or Modern Toli, is a language spoken and official in Aprux Mexyrhat and FERRA, writen in Toli script. Its distinctive features are vowel rhythm and grammatical voicing of consonants.

History

The Modern Toli langauge split-off from Atoliax language alongside Adolhix at the end of the first millenium A.Dyr..

Orthography

Toli script

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Romanization

The romanization of Toli consists of 17 letters, uper case and lower case. It also includes an apostrophe for voicing of consonants. Semivowels, since they only apear alongside vowels, are spelled as i and u.

	Front	Central	Back
High	I i	Y y	U u
Low	A a	E e	O o

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal	M m	N n
Plosive	P p	T t	K k
Fricative	F f	S s, X x	H h
Trill/Lateral		R r, L l

Asomtavrulization

For all the "remove Ⴃ" folks in the nguhcord.

The Asomtavrulization of Toli consists of 19 letters. A stroke diacritic is used for voicing of consonants. Semivowels are spelled as their vowel counterparts + Ⴥ.

	Front	Central	Back
High	Ⴈ	Ⴄ‿	Ⴓ
Low	Ⴀ	Ⴄ	Ⴍ

Oh, also, it's boustrophedon.

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal	Ⴋ	Ⴌ
Plosive	Ⴔ	Ⴇ	Ⴕ
Fricative	Ⴣ	Ⴑ, Ⴘ	Ⴠ
Trill/Lateral		Ⴐ, Ⴊ

And you know who else uses Asomtavruli?

Phonology

Vowels

Toli has six phonemic vowels, devided into three pairs of low and high vowels in each pair.

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ʏ	u
Low	a	ɛ	ɔ

Vowel Rhythm

Vowels alternate between high and low between syllables, in one word. When affixation or any other word-merging occurs, the vowels may change their state to fit the first vowel in the new word. An example of this would be:

• kirfa "cinnamon"
• xukuelit "chocolatte"
• apxukuelitkarfi "(Adjective marker)-chocolatte-cinnamon"

Semivowels

Semivowels are mostly derived from loanwords. They only apear in diphthongs and are not phonemic.

Consonants

Toli has eleven phonemic consonants, all, in gramatical sense, being devoiced (falsely unvoiced in Bold):

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p	t	k
Fricative	f	s, ʂ	x
Trill/Lateral		r, l

In gramatcal sense, these are the voiced counterparts of presented consonants (falsesly unvoiced in Bold):

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal	mg	nd
Plosive	b	d	g
Fricative	v	z, ʐ	ɣ
Trill/Lateral		rb, lz

Irregularities

• /rx/ is pronounced /r/ in all contexts

Grammar

Nouns

Nouns have high initial vowels. They are inflected by number... an that's it. If only I were a smarter conlanger.

Plurals

Plurals are formed by voicing the last consonant (see chart above). When a noun ends in a vowel, and the preceding consonant is falsely unvoiced, the consonant is voiced and split by the vowel (Cv > CvC).

Verbs

Verbs have low initial vowels. They are conjugated by tense and aspect. Aspect is the first to be aplied to a verb, then tense is aplied.

Tense

Verbs are in present tense in their unconjugated form. Past tense is achived through the ky- prefix, and future tense is achived through the -y/ef suffix.

Aspect

Verbs are in imperfective aspect in their unconjugated form. Perfective aspect is achived through voicing of the last syllable.

Adjectives

Adjectives are placed before their nouns. Adjectives derived from nouns start with a ap- prefix, while adjectives derived from verbs have their first consonant voiced and their vowel rhythm switched.

Adverbs

Adverbs are placed before their verbs. Adverbs derived from verbs start with a kor- perfix, while adverbs derived from nouns have their vowel rhythm switched and a kor- prefix added.

Dialects

Modern Toli has developed several dialects. Sometimes, separate languges are regarded as dialects of Toli. Most spoken dialects are presented bellow

Perhyh Dialect

Perhyh Dialect is used in the capital of Aprux Mexyrhat, Perhyh. It's the stereotypical "young people lazy" and "deafult city" trope. Notable features of this dialect include:

• Merging of r and l into l
• Merging of ʏ and u in closed syllable positions
• Lenghting of open end syllable vowels
• Historical ɛr becoming ə
• Glotalization of x into h