Toli

Toli (endonym: Toli /tɔli/) 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.

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"
• xukŭelit "chocolatte"
• apxukŭelitkarfi "(Adjective) chocolatte-cinnamon"