Tooteni

Tooteni is a fictional language family created for worldbuilding and conlang communities. This article describes the imagined language family, not a real-world language. In the constructed setting, Tooteni comprises several related languages spoken by the Tooteni peoples who inhabit the river plains along the Lirath River on the southern continent of Aurel.

The term Tooteni is the autonym used by speakers for their languages; it is linked to a root meaning "sound" or "speech" in the lore.

The Tooteni languages are centered in a cluster of settlements near the Lirath valley; populations number in the tens of thousands across five dialect continua, and mutual intelligibility varies.

Morphology is agglutinative with extensive affixation; syntax tends to SOV in traditional narratives, though modern usage shows flexible word order due to rich case markers.

Phonology includes consonants p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r and vowels a, e, i, o, u. The writing system uses a syllabary called the Tooten Script, with signs representing CV or CVC syllables; stress is generally penultimate.

In the fiction, Tooteni is studied by linguists and preserved through folklore, schools, and digital language-learning tools within the world.