Tako たこ

General information
Tako is a very simple language spoken by group of simple people before being invaded by Ayeyarok'þ/Urdcax speakers. Tako people lived in a jungle like enviroment in complete isolation so the language developed terms for only a small amount of things

Alphabet
P t k i o a

Phonotactics
Tako is monosyllabic: the possible syllables are CV, CVC, VC, VCV.

Both Tako and Urdcax are tonal languages how ever they use tone differently, urdcax uses tone to distinguish word classes whilst tako simply uses it for phonetics

here are the three tones

Grammar
===Nouns: Tako nouns are only marked for case and nothing else and are very simple, there are no pronouns instead people's names are used. Adjectives are simply nouns and adverbs are just verbs. Colours are named from what the represent in the wild e.g. blood is opo and thus red is opo.===

Cases: there are only morphosnytatic cases and no other cases, for example átakap apapak ip. boy ergative apple accusative eat, boy eat apple. pap áta, sleep boy expriencer, the boy sleeps.

Verbs
the verbs are simple and are not marked for tense, aspect or mood at all not even with pres postions for example walk is simply Pa.

Vocabulary
There are many loan words from english and urdcax, religious terms, war terms and herding terms for urdcax whilst more modern terms, and scientific terms come from english.

Tako has to change words from english drastically pati kis is merry christmas. if we look at this first loanword merry is rendered pati because there is no m so it becomes p, there is no e as in chirstmas is it becomes a, there is no r so it becomes t. christmas is kis because there are no polysyllabic words in tako, the ch in christmas is prounced k english and so can be just written k, the middle rstma is ommited completely.