Collab:Taukan

This page is dedicated to the design of the Taukan article that focus on both the Taukan language family and the Taukan ethnic groups and culture.

Introduction

The Taukan Project is an attempt to create a cohesive story for Antarephia by establishing a set of agreed upon historical, linguistic, geographic, and cultural facts. This forms a framework which mappers can use to connect to a wider accepted history, while still allowing flexibility when describing and mapping their own territories. The main goal is to create a story that makes sense, as much as is possible.

The Taukan Project only applies to voluntary members and their territories, although the hope is that additional mappers will join in this shared history, and that it might expand to other parts of the OGF map.

Countries

Below is the list of countries that are part of the Taukan Sphere, culturally and/or linguistically:

Country	Area (km2)	Population	File:WA Overview map.png
Guai	29,163	8,985,580
Template:Paxtar	707,560
Template:Ullanne	43,456	6,177,823

NB: within Paxtar, the province of Sabishii is not Taukan.

Naming

Taukan could be replaced by a non-Ingerish term:

• Taukan from the old WA root tauka implying an idea of bond or meaning those who are bound by an oath. This name may have been apply by the WA People upon themselves as they constituted some kind of loose federations.

Country	Status
Guai	Approved
Template:Paxtar	Approved
Template:Ullanne	Approved

Taukan history

File:WA Historic 1 map.svg	File:WA Historic 2 map.svg	File:WA Historic 3 map.svg
File:WA Historic 4 map.svg	File:WA Historic 5 map.svg	File:WA Historic 6 map.svg

Geographic topics

Reflections on AN146

Below are some Dec. 2017 drafts used for talks on whether and how AN146 could be considered part of the Taukan Sphere to bridge between Ullanyé, to the East, and Paxtar & Guai to the West.

Options for geographic features Options for climatic features Options for political topics

Languages

Sound changes

As an attempt to systematise the forming of words when borrowed from one language to another, I have listed the following "rules". As I did not pay too much attention when borrowing from Olonyé to Guaiian, these rules are not always respected but listing them may prove to be useful for future creations:

Rule	Sound	Proto-Taukan	Guaiian	Olonyé	Tenibri	Guaiian example	Olonyé example	Tenibri example
1	syllable		stressed /w/	stressed /ur/		uabe	urabé
2	vowel	/ɔ'lik/	unstressed /ʌ/	unstressed /ʌ/	unstressed /u/	àlik	ulik	ūlūç
3	syllable		stressed /ge/	stressed /ke/		ugero	ukeró
4	consonant		initial /θ/ in monosyllables	initial /t/ in monosyllables	initial /t/	thos	tos	tosrine
5	consonant		unstressed /dj/	unstressed /dʒ/		tondia	tondya
6	consonant		mostly stressed /ʒ/, sometimes stressed /dʒ/	stressed /dʒ/		dasój	tasóndy
7	consonant	/'sufuθ/	mostly /ʃ/ in monosyllables or unstressed syllables. Sometimes /ʒ/	/ʂ/	/t/	cif, imaj	sufú, imás	imot
8	vowel		syncope	unstressed /a/ in penultimate syllables		dje, makle	hadye, mekalén
9	consonant		/gj/ in monosyllables	/g/ in monosyllables		gie	gí
10	consonant	/pa'rajk/	/ʒ/	/g/	/ç/	barj, sīj	beraig, isig	ciç
11	consonant		many /g/	many /k/		ugero	ukeró
12	consonant		many /k/	many /g/		kas	gasa
13	consonant		metathesis /l/ for /ɾ/ or reversed	metathesis /l/ for /ɾ/ or reversed	metathesis /l/ for /ɾ/ or reversed	lyg, Karmelóm	reku	Cälmelom
14	syllable		diphthong /ɔw/	long /o:/		four	fór
15	syllable		syncope of some unstressed initial syllables (prefixes that do not exist in Guai?)			saca	echasa
16	vowel		stressed long /e:/	stressed diphthong /ei/		ēnia	eiane
17	consonant		/ʃ/	/tʃ/		cireij	chiraig
18	consonant	/a'wal/	/v/	/b/		avál, dova	abálú, dobâs