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"

Semivowels

Semivowels (j, w) mostly derive from laonwords, but could occur in compound words too

Consonants

Toli has eleven phonemic consonants, all, in gramatical sense, being devoiced.

	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:

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

Orthography

Toli script

The Toli script is a greek-esque phonemic alphabet which would make any greek person loose their marbles. due to the haters at unicode, please look at the picture on the side.

The Toli script posseses diacritics, as well as alternative and foreign phonemes symbols.

Romanization

Let's face it, nobody will be using the Toli script no matter how much i try. Therefore, this is the romanization of the phonemes:

• i y u a e o - for vowels
• m n p t k f s x h r l - for consonants

Voiced consonants:

• m' n' p' t' k' f' s' x' h' r' l'

There are also romanizations for semivowels:

• ĭ ŭ

As well as characters for foreign sounds present in loanwords, and diacritcs of Toli script:

• ĕ/y̆ /ə/
• uy/uu /ø~y/
• - /ʔ/