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==History==
== Sociolinguistics ==
==Phonology==
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==== Tone and stress ====
A tonal system, consisting of two high (H) & low (L) and often described as 'sparse' or 'restricted', exists in most varieties of Tauaans. It is variously termed 'pitch', 'stress', or 'tone' by linguistic scholars of Tauaans. Similar systems also exists in the southeastern Jôngnam dialect of [[Corean language|Corean]], several varieties of [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and a number of Scythian languages such as Swedish.
These tones are phonemic are used to contrast minimal pairs in both multi-syllabic and monosyllabic words (e.x 號 ''hóu'' 'wail' as opposed to ''hòu'' 'keep'). High tone is indicated with the acute accent ◌́, while low is represented with the grave ◌̀. However, it is only high tone that is often written, with most transcriptions of Tauaans not indicating tone at all outside of academic contexts.
==Orthography==
While most commonly written using the Latin script, Tauaans can be transcribed with Chinese characters, Hankoel, hiragana, and significantly more rarely, Arabic and indigenous Indonesian scripts. Chinese characters (''Tonzy'', 唐字), being a logographic writing system, employs photo-semantic matching, meaning it conceals the non-Chinese origin of the word by representing it with both a phonetically and semantically related character.
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