Telehe language

Telehe language is spoken by the Telehe people in Hārūcute, it was one of the most spoken languages in Kóty before it's extinction in 1200AGS, influential language between 500-850AGS to many other peoples in Koty, its decline met when the Telehe Empire fell.

Consonants

 * /l r/ Consonants feature great differences in [], featuring [l∼ɫ ɹ∼r∼ʐ] the [ʐ] segment is a old iteration of /r/ next to [z̠] making it a retroflex.


 * /w/ in fast speech can be realized as [ʋ∼ɰ].
 * /j/ is a hard iteration of old consonants resulting in, j → ɟ / V_V; j → ʝ / V[+front]_, čōyar [t͡ʃɔːˈɟaɹ], ̠ yīm [ˈʝɨ̃ː]
 * /n/ assimilation of /n/ into [n∼ɲ∼ŋ∼ɳ] happen within some conditions like, n → ɲ / _c; n → ŋ / _k; n → ɳ / r_.
 * are realized as [t͜ɕ d͜ʑ ɕ ʑ] before /i iː/ and [t͜s d͜z] before /u uː/.
 * <č> is realized as [t̠͡ʃ]
 *  is realized as its voiced version of it.
 * /z s/ in some environments change to its allophone [ʐ ʂ] next to /r/.

Vowels

 * Both long and short vowels are different in quality and lengthening with ‹a e i o u› /a e i o u/ [a e i ɔ ɤ ɯ] and ‹ā ē ī ō ū› /aː eː iː oː uː/ [aː ɪː eː oː ɯ̽ː], /e eː/ between consonants and preceding semivowels is realized as [ɤ̞ ɤ̞ː], /i iː/ after /w/ and /j/ is realized as [ɨᵝ~ɯᵝ ɨᵝː~ɯᵝː].
 * |uw uj iw ij| are all impossible in telehe, so they are realised as /u: u: i: i:/.

Phonotactics



 * S – Sibilant /s z/
 * O – Obstruent /p b t d k g č/
 * N – Sonorant /n m r l j w s z š h/
 * C – Consonant / p b t d k g č n m r j w s z š/

Names in Telehe
Names in Telehe language are fairly complex.

Naming is a important deal in Telehe culture, the naming cerimony is made three weeks after born, the child is presented to the traditional Gods of telehe religion.

There are three types of name you assume in the society, the Xēa is a birth name given by your mother/father at birth, the Čaya name you choose from there the birth name becomes obsolete, the ones who refer to you by your birth name knowning your Čaya are mocking and/or ridicularizing you, the Fučō is your third name it is given to you when you are old, sometimes this one is also a posthumous names.

Normally the Xēa is an adjetive like Aotī, Etedo, Yoluto, these are common adjectives used to name new borns, they mean "beautiful", "cute" and "lucky".

The Čaya is commonly an adjective too, but alongside with an generic noun commonly associated with nature, meaning sometimes "Strong Stone", "Bright Water", "Holy Wind", other common names are accept too, these are common in the Telehe Ħautkar speaking communities like "Müđyy Üyu". Names that are Onomatopoeic are way more common than Adjetives, like "Tuntun", "Ranran" and "Gōga", these Onomatopoeic names doesn't necesseraly need to represent a sound, it can be random words and even Neologisms. On matters of parental first names being attached to this name, the parental names must be the Čaya of the parents, it is disrectfull for the person take the Fučō or the Xēa of their parents.

The Fučō is formed by some Adjetives likewise "Admirable", "Lovely" and "Benign" really respectfull names, this third name also is taken as a posthumous name by other people.