Tyap/Phonology
Fonoloji nTyap ※ Tyap phonology
[edit | edit source]A̱nwuat-yei ※ Intonation
[edit | edit source]Tyap is a tonal language with high, mid, low, mid-low, high-low and low-high ranges, but only one (the high tone indicated by the acute accent) is used for writing.
Tyap has no nasal vowel sounds. It, however, has nasal consonants sounds (m /m/, n /n/, and ng /ŋ/) which are also tonal.
Tyap also uses the underscore diacritic mark usually placed under vowels "a" and "i"; a̱ denotes the schwa sound /ǝ/ while i̱ denotes the shortened "i" sound /ɨ/.
A̱yaatsa̱ntsai ※ Vowels
[edit | edit source]The seven vowels of Tyap can be classified as either short or long monophthongs sounds.
- Short Monophthongs
- a a̱ e i i̱ o u
- Long Monophthongs
- a a̱a̱ ee ii i oo uu
The language has seven (or more) diphthongs: ai ei a̱i a̱u ea ia oi
A̱yaagha̱ghap ※ Consonants
[edit | edit source]Labialization, palatalization, and palate-labialization of consonant sounds are responsible for the many consonant sounds in the Tyap language, unlike in english.
The language has over 80 monographic and multigraphic labialized, palatalized, and palate-labialized consonant sounds, classified into fortis and lenis modifications.