Tosï
Tásí | |
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Pronunciation | [ˈtosɨ] |
Language family | Isolate |
Writing system | Nahan, Latin (when Nahan isn't available) |
Official status | |
Spoken in | Heufauna |
Regulated by | át́íréćiízí t́ításí t́íhífána Át́íréćiízí T́ításí T́íhífána (ÁĆiTH)/Heufaunese Language Regulatory Committee |
Speaker | |
Endonym | tásí Tásí |
Number of speakers | 44 |
Technical information | |
Usage | Offcicial language |
Tásí (natively tásí [tosɨ]) is an official language of Heufauna written in the Nahan script.
Phonology
Consonants
Tásí has 23 consonants:
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | ŋ ⟨ń⟩ | |||
Plosive | Voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | ʧ ⟨ci⟩ | k ⟨c⟩ | ʔ ⟨∅⟩[1] |
Voiced | b ⟨ṕ⟩ | d ⟨t́⟩ | ʤ ⟨ći⟩ | g ⟨ći⟩ | ||
Fricative | Voiceless | f ⟨f⟩ | s ⟨s⟩ | ʃ ⟨si⟩ | x ⟨h⟩ | |
Voiced | v ⟨v⟩ | z ⟨z⟩ | ʒ ⟨zi⟩ | ɣ ⟨r⟩ | ||
Liquid | w ⟨u⟩ | l ⟨l⟩ | j ⟨i⟩ |
- ↑ due to Tásí syllabes having to start with a consonant, the previously orthographic h́ is now obsolete and this phoneme is hence unrepresented orthographically
Vowels
Tásí has 7 vowels:
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i ⟨é⟩ | ɨ ⟨í⟩ | u ⟨o⟩ |
Mid | e ⟨e⟩ | ɵ ⟨ó⟩ | o ⟨á⟩ |
Low | a ⟨a⟩ |