Takuña
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| 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.
