Tosï
| Tásí | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [ˈtosɨ] |
| Language family | Isolate |
| Writing system | Nahan, Latin (when Nahan isn't available) |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Heufauna |
| Regulated by | 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ⟨é⟩ | ɨ ⟨í⟩ | u ⟨o⟩ |
| Mid | e ⟨e⟩ | ɵ[1] ⟨ó⟩ | o ⟨á⟩ |
| Low | a ⟨a⟩ |
- ↑ This vowel is elided away in unstressed positions