{"id":48,"date":"2011-05-26T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talossan.org\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2011-05-26T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:42:01","slug":"phonology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/?page_id=48","title":{"rendered":"Phonology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phonologically, Talossan is similar in its pronunciation to a Romance language, but exhibits some Germanic sounds (such as the English &#8220;sh&#8221; sound, and the vowel sound heard in English &#8220;cash&#8221;), and even some Slavic and Celtic pronunciation tendencies.<\/p>\n<h2>The Alphabet<\/h2>\n<p>The Talossan language is written using thirty-two letters.  Eight of these letters are vowels and each of these can be marked to indicate stress.  The letters in the Talossan alphabet are listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"\/?page_id=50\">Vowels<\/a>: a \u00e4 e i o \u00f6 u \u00fc<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"\/?page_id=142\">Consonants<\/a>: b c \u00e7 d \u00f0 f g h k l m n p q r s \u00df t v x z \u00fe<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Indicated Semivowels: j w<\/b> (these letters are used only in certain words where they stand for <b>i<\/b> and <b>u<\/b>, respectively, in <a href=\"\/?page_id=52#semivowels\">polyphthongs<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"display:none;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d23magic.com\/\">office 2016 product key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joyce-group.com\/\">windows 10 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/actonalcohol.org.au\/\">office 2016 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/benakasolutions.in\/\">windows 10 product key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/farinter.com\/\">windows 10 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nutone.it\/\">windows 7 pro key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noroil.as\/\">office 2016 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoteldonsimon.com\/\">windows 10 iso<\/a> &nbsp;|<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lustrestudio.com\/\">windows 10 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelbackautoglass.com\/\">windows 10 activation key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkyleisure.co.uk\/\">windows 10 product key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/400cervantes.ayto-alcaladehenares.es\/\">windows 10 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidehomebuyers.net\/\">windows 7 iso<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bilginhaliyikama.com\/\">office 2016 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/antey-crimea.ru\/\">office 2016 key<\/a> &nbsp;|<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The same alphabetical order as English is used in Talossan, except that <strong>\u00f0<\/strong> (called &#8220;eth&#8221; in English) follows <strong>d<\/strong>, and <strong>\u00fe<\/strong> (called \u2018thorn\u2019) follows <strong>z<\/strong>.  In alphabetical ordering, <b>\u00e7<\/b> (called <em>tze cediglha<\/em> or <em>tze ca\u00dfat<\/em>) is not distinguished from <strong>c<\/strong>, nor is <strong>\u00df<\/strong> (called <em>eseta<\/em>) distinguished from <strong>s<\/strong>, nor any marked vowel from its unmarked counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>The Talossan alphabet is pronounced:  <em>ah, be, tze, de, e\u00f0, eh, ef, ge, hal (<\/em>or <em>hasch), ih, txota, ka, ell, em, en, oh, pe, c\u00fc, er, es, te, uh, ve, ve T\u00fctsch, \u00fcx, tzet, \u00feorn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the letter <b>y<\/b> is not a letter of the Talossan alphabet.  It appears in Talossan texts only in foreign words, such as proper names.<\/p>\n<h2>Alternative Orthography<\/h2>\n<p>Three Talossan letters not found on the QWERTY keyboard (<strong>\u00fe<\/strong>, <strong>\u00f0<\/strong>, and <strong>\u00df<\/strong>) can alternatively be represented by other letters.  Either form is used in Talossan texts interchangeably as a matter of personal taste or convenience.  It is not uncommon to see uses of both orthographies for a single letter in the same work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Letter <strong>\u00fe<\/strong> is often seen written using the digraph <strong>tg<\/strong>.  In practice, the letter <strong>\u00fe<\/strong> is used as often as, or even more often than, the <strong>tg<\/strong> digraph, and it is preferred to the digraph for formal texts.<\/li>\n<li>The Letter <strong>\u00f0<\/strong> is often written using <b>d<\/b> for convenience.<\/li>\n<li>The Letter <strong>\u00df<\/strong>.  The letter <strong>\u00df<\/strong> is interchangeable with the digraph <strong>ss<\/strong> and is widely used, though it is customary to avoid using <strong>\u00df<\/strong> in the word <em>Talossa <\/em>and words derived from it.  Additionally, the words <em>fossent <\/em>(= we must, they must), <em>qissen <\/em>(= whose), <em>qissenevri <\/em>(= whosoever), and <em>Vossen\u00e7ia <\/em>(= Your Excellency) are typically seen spelled using <strong>ss <\/strong>(but it is not incorrect to use <strong>\u00df<\/strong> in these words).  This letter is used as <strong>\u00df<\/strong> in both upper- and lowercase; no Talossan word begins with this letter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/?page_id=50\" onmouseover=\"this.style.cursor='hand'\"><input class=\"inputSubmit\" type=\"button\" value=\"Next: Learn About the Talossan Vowels...\" onclick=\"window.location='\/?page_id=50'\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phonologically, Talossan is similar in its pronunciation to a Romance language, but exhibits some Germanic sounds (such as the English &#8220;sh&#8221; sound, and the vowel sound heard in English &#8220;cash&#8221;), and even some Slavic and Celtic pronunciation tendencies. The Alphabet The Talossan language is written using thirty-two letters. Eight of these letters are vowels and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talossan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}