Tözen Tan

Tözen Tan is a Tannic language, a sister language of Sajem Tan created by Tözen (Fog), spoken by the Foglodytes. It is descended from Sajem Sülem.

Vowels
The vowels of Tözen Tan are as follows:

Tözen Tan is one of the non-fronting Tannic languages, in which Sajem Sülem's /u/, /o/, and /ɔ/ did not front to /y/, /ø/, and /œ/, respectively (according to the theory whereby this is how Sajem Tan's front rounded vowels came to be). As such, Tözen Tan lacks front rounded vowels except as a result of vowel harmony in particles. When a word that contains front rounded vowels is loaned into Tözen Tan, the front rounded vowels are typically replaced by /ju/ and /jo/.

Vowel harmony
Tözen Tan has vowel harmony based on roundedness, similar to Ţeţat Tan. The unrounded/rounded pairs are as follows; they are identical to the "Turkish vowel cube". Sometimes the vowel's actual pronunciation is not that of the symbol used to represent it phonemically. For those vowels, a more accurate pronunciation is indicated in the footnotes of the table in the previous section.

There is no vowel harmony within roots. Vowels in particles harmonize with what is known as the "lighthouse vowel". This is usually the final vowel of the word in Tözen Tan. Both derivational and inflectional suffixes harmonize to the roundedness of the lighthouse vowel.

In dictionaries, suffixes and pronouns show the base form and the "harmonized" form, like this: "sho, harm. sha 'imperfective aspect marker'"

Vowel length
Vowels may be short, half-long, or long. Long vowels are always stressed; if there are more than one long vowel in the word, the last one gets the stress, and the second-to-last gets the secondary stress. For example, gamúnesís "tree fruit" /gaˌmuːneˈsiːs/.

Nasalization
Vowels can be nasalized in Tözen Tan. This occurs when the vowel was followed by morpheme-final /n/ or /m/ in Sajem Sülem. For instance, Sajem Sülem *tozen-zo > Tözen Tan tozeñ /toˈzɛ̃/ "fog" (Sajem Tan tözen /tøzen/). This nasalization affects following plosives in the same word: for instance, in the word tozeñte "because of fog" (tozeñ + -te "causative case marker"), the ‹t› is nasalized to [n].

Nasal vowels are always half-long and stressed when there is only one in the word. When there are more than one, the last one is half-long and stressed, and all the others are short. Secondary stress then falls on the second-to-last nasal vowel. For instance: tozeñ /toˈzɛ̃ˑ/, tozeñmuñ /toˌzɛ̃ˈmũ/ "infinite fog".

Consonants
Tözen Tan is among the dialects that has /p/ and /b/, which are noticeably lacking in Sajem Tan.