Tselsanthe
Tselsanthe (Standard Tselsanthe: Ɂokʷ-cʼəlsɂãtᶿeɂ, literally 'the way we speak'), or Chŭrsangtxê, historically known as Northern Ru, is a Ruic language spoken in the Qonklese Northeast by the Three Tribes
Names
Standard Tselsanthe is an artificial dialect constructed as a lingua franca between various nations in the Northeast.
Tselsanthe
Nekora: Ɂokʷ-cʼersɂãtᶿiɂ
Hangabatan: Ɂogʷ-cəlsɂãdᶿeɂ
Orbin: Ɂʷəkʷ-cʼərsɂãtᶿyəɂ
Phonology
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-nas | +nas | -nas | +nas | -nas | +nas | |
High | i | ĩ | u | ũ | ||
Mid | e | ẽ | ə | ə̃ | o | õ |
Low | a | ã |
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | sibilant | lateral | plain | labial | plain | labial | plain | labial | |||||
Plosive/Affricate | voiceless | p | tᶿ | t | ts | tɬ | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | Ɂ | Ɂʷ | |
ejective | pʼ | tᶿʼ | tʼ | tsʼ | tɬʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ɬ | x | xʷ | ||||||||
Sonorant | voiced | m | n | l | ŋ | ŋʷ | |||||||
Approximant | j | w |