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{{Infobox language
{{Infobox language
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|creator = [[User:IlL|IlL]], [[User:Praimhín|Praimhín]]
|creator = [[User:IlL|IlL]]
|name = ǃZoom
|name = Tłkaw
|nativename =  
|nativename =  
|pronunciation=   
|pronunciation=   
|setting = [[Verse:Tricin]]
|setting = [[Verse:Tricin]]
|region = Zoom Islands
|region = East Talma
|speakers= 270 million
|speakers= 6 million
|date=13b0dd
|date=13b0dd
|familycolor=tergetic
|familycolor= Lakovic
|fam1=[[Lakovic]]
|fam1=[[Lakovic]]
|script=ǃZoom script
|script=ǃTłkaw script
|iso3=
|iso3=
|notice=IPA
|notice=IPA
}}
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[Lakovic]] language spoken by Zoomers. It's a tonal language with clicks and mutations.
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''dgē Tłkaw'' /ŋ{{tiebar}}!ɜː kǁaw/; ''dgē'' is related to Naeng ''tnger'' 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Tłkaw people in Eastern Talma.
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Clickhmoob relative?


==Introduction==
==Introduction==
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===Consonants===
===Consonants===
A lot of clicks - voicing and/or aspiration is neutralized in post-tonal clicks, however.
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg " style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|+ '''{{PAGENAME}} consonants'''
! colspan="2"|
! | Labial
! | Alveolar
! | Lateral
! | Palatal
! | Velar
! | Glottal
|-
! rowspan="2" |Click
! | <small>voiceless</small>
| colspan="6"| '''pk''' /kʘ/, '''tk''' /k!/, '''tsk''' /kǀ/, '''tłk''' /kǁ/
|-
! | <small>voiced</small>
| colspan="6"| '''bg''' /ŋʘ~ɡʘ/, '''dg''' /ŋ!~ɡ!/, '''dsg''' /ŋǀ~ɡǀ/, '''dłg''' /ŋǁ~ɡǁ/
|-
! colspan="2" | Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
| '''n''' /n/
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| '''{{ng}}''' /ŋ/
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|-
! rowspan="3" |Plosive
! | <small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p/
| '''t''' /t/
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| '''k''' /k/
| /ʔ-/
|-
! | <small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b/
| '''d''' /d/
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| '''g''' /ɡ/
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|-
! | <small>implosive</small>
| '''qb''' /ɓ/
| '''qd''' /ɗ/
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| '''qg''' /ɠ/
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|-
! colspan="2" |Fricative
|
| '''s''' /s/, '''z''' /z/
| '''ł'''
| '''š''' /ʃ/, '''ž''' /{{ž}}/
| '''x''' /x/
| '''h''' /h/
|-
! colspan="2" |Affricate
|
| '''ts''' /ts/
| '''tł'''
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|-
! colspan="2" | Resonant
| '''w''' /w/
| '''r''' /ɾ/
| '''l''' /l/
| '''y''' /j/
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|}


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
/a i u a: i: u: ai au ə/ '''a i u â î û ai au e'''
a e i o u + diphthongs (PLak a and ā merge by default, except āy > ay, ay > ey)


/ə/ is a common outcome of vowel reduction and can only occur in unstressed syllables.
e i cemtralize after !


===Prosody===
===Prosody===
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
No mutations (it's not a Talmic language)
Should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs
 
Inflectional morphology:
=== Nouns ===
* construct state
* Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup
 
=== Verbs ===
* Present tense bi- (from the agentive)
* Past: r infix participle
* Future and imperative: unmarked form


==Syntax==
==Syntax==
more head-final than Naeng
===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
===Noun phrase===
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==Example texts==
==Example texts==
==Poetry==
==Poetry==
zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd
Tłkaw should have Welsh style cynghanedd


where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem
where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem
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[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Lakovic languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category: Tricin]]