Tomian language
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| Tomian | |
|---|---|
| Tomeǥâ | |
| Pronunciation | /tɔˈmɛɢɑ/ |
| Region | Tomgak |
| Ethnicity | Tomians |
| Native speakers | 41,118 (2020) |
| Language family | Tomgic
|
| Early forms: | Proto-Tomgic
|
| Dialects | |
| Official status | |
| Official language in |  Tomgak |
| Regulated by | Royal Academy of Tomian Language and Literature |
| CWS code | TMQ |
Tomian (Tomian: Tomeǥâ /tɔˈmɛɢɑ/) is a Northern Mirarian dialect continuum of Tomgic language family spoken as a first language by 21,118 people on Tomgak islands where it is the national language.
Little is known about language's prehistory and when it first appear on Islands. The most early texts is from the 6th century CE. [WIP history part]
Tomian is a polysynthetic language. Nouns are inflected by one of eleven cases. Verbs are inflected for one of eight moods and for the number and person (3rd person also distinguishes by 3 animacy classes). Tomian has very complex tense-aspect system. Both nouns and verbs have complex derivational morphology. The basic word order is Verb-Subject-Object.
History
Proto-language was and now it's modern language [WIP]
External history
Proto-language period
Old Cjadë Tomian
Imperial Tomian
Helsonian Tomian
Modern Tomian
Internal history
Vowels
Consonants
Phonology
Phonemes
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | ||||
| Nasal | m̥ m | m̥ʲ mʲ | n̥ n | n̥ʲ nʲ | |||||||
| Plosive | t d | tʲ dʲ | k g | kʲ gʲ | q ɢ | ʔ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s d͡z | t͡sʲ d͡zʲ | t͡ʃ d͡ʒ | t͡ʃʲ d͡ʒʲ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | sʲ | ʃ | ʃʲ | x | xʲ | χ | h | |||
| Trill | r̥ r | r̥ʲ rʲ | |||||||||
| Approximant | l̥ l | l̥ʲ lʲ | j | w | |||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | |
| Close | i y | iː yː | ɯ u | ɯː uː | ||
| Near-Close | ʊ | ʊː | ||||
| Close-Mid | ɘ | |||||
| Mid | ə | əː | ||||
| Open-Mid | ɛ œ | ɛː œː | ɔ | ɔː | ||
| Near-Open | ɐ | |||||
| Open | aː | ɑ | ɑː | |||