Takuña

Takuña
Period	0-200 YP
Spoken in	Siixtaguna and nearby islands
Total speakers	unknown
Writing system	Takuña script
Classification	Núalís-Takuña family
Typology
Basic word order	VSO
Morphology	synthetic affixes; consonant mutations
Alignment	Accusative
Credits
Created by	TzirTzi

Takuña is a language of the Núalís-Takuña family. It is the variety indigenous to the islands colonised by the speakers of Mûtsipsa'.

Features

Like other members of its family, Takuña has a comparatively small phoneme inventory; this inventory, however, is considerably larger than that of its ancestor due to the development of a series of long consonants. Historically, its consonants have been less stable than its vowels; its monophthongs have remained virtually unchanged since its reconstructed ancestor, PNT. It is characterised by processes causing vowel nasalisation and by a phonemic vowel register involving lowered tone and creaky phonation.

See also

• Takuña grammar
• Lexicon of Takuña