Tpayata
expression, language, art
to create, to write, to speak
Tpayata
expression, language, art
to create, to write, to speak
is a little personal language I worked on from 2021-'22. It did not reach completion, but came closer than pretty much all my other conlangs (ignoring Tuki Tiki, which reached something more like depletion). It was inspired by two other languages: ngengo cie and 'Ulambula (both inactive now). The word count fizzles out after 100, although it was going to get a lot bigger. Part of what stopped me was the sound of the language: although I went small on sounds intentionally, that made it hard to make new words sound "right". But by then, an internal logic had developed in the sound system that related to the meaning of words, and I had grown too attached to change it.
Broadly, the vocab falls into three groups: common words, comprising most content words like nouns and verbs and adjectives; helping words, which handle most of the grammar; and also depicting words, which imitate a sound or other stimulus or idea (think "woof-woof", "zigzag" or "thwack").
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Bilabial-lingual | Lingual | |
| Nasal | m | n | ||
| Obstruent | p | f | t͡p | t |
| Approximant | ꞵ | j |