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=== The grammar seems very simple. Am I overlooking something? ===
✅ It is simple! You do not need to learn a lot of rules to be able to say a lot. More bang for your buck.
=== How many tones are there? ===
=== How many tones are there? ===
✅ 4 tones.
✅ 4 tones.
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=== What does tone X do? ===
=== What does tone X do? ===
✅ See the following table:
✅ See the following table:
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
{{Tone table}}
!
!Falling tone {{done|1}}
!Rising tone {{done|2}}
!Glottal tone {{done|3}}
!Rising-falling tone {{done|4}}
|-
! [[Verb]]
|<ul><li>[[Verbal complex]] <li>[[Serial]] tail <li>[[Adjective]] <li> [[Determiner]] complement</ul>
| [[Bound variable]]
| style="background:#ccc" |
|[[Adjunct]]
|-
![[Pronoun]]
| style="background:#ccc" |
|Argument
| style="background:#ccc" |
|[[Incorporated object]]
|-
![[Determiner]]
| style="background:#ccc" |
|Argument
| style="background:#ccc" |
|[[Incorporated object]]
|-
![[Complementizer]]
|[[Speech act]] complement
| style="background:#ccc" |
|[[Subclause]] head
|[[Incorporated object]]
|-
! [[Interjection]]
|Interjection
|Inquiry
| style="background:#ccc" |
|Expression of empathy
|-
![[Speech act particle]]
| colspan="4" | Lexical tone (i.e. {{Derani|󱚶󱚺|da}} and {{Derani|󱚶󱛌󱚺|dâ}} are simply different lexemes)
|-
![[Focus particle]]
| colspan="4" |Steals tone from head if possible, otherwise echoes it
|-
![[Conjunction]]
| Highest precedence
| Default precedence
| style="background:#ccc" |
|Second highest precedence
|}


=== How do you pronounce X? ===
=== How do you pronounce X? ===
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* https://toaq.herokuapp.com/ (outdated)
* https://toaq.herokuapp.com/ (outdated)


If you're on [[Discord]] or Telegram, you can also use commands like <code>%english %logic %structure</code> (for [[Zugaı]]) and <code>%miu</code> for the outdated [[Mıu]]; [[Nuogaı|more bot commands are listed here]].
If you're on [[Discord]], you can also use commands like <code>%english %logic %structure</code> (for [[Zugaı]]) and <code>%miu</code> for the outdated [[Mıu]]; [[Nuogaı|more bot commands are listed here]].


=== How do I type the tone marks/symbols/diacritics? ===
=== How do I type the tone marks/symbols/diacritics? ===
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=== How are roots created? ===
=== How are roots created? ===
✅ A priori, based on my intuition. I usually have to think long and hard and feel my options out before I decide what root to assign to a concept.
✅ The author described the process as: "A priori, based on my intuition. I usually have to think long and hard and feel my options out before I decide what root to assign to a concept."
 
Recently, many words are created by community consensus on [[Toadua]], including root words, using a variety of methods.


=== Where can I find a dictionary? ===
=== Where can I find a dictionary? ===
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=== Is Toaq easy/difficult/hard? ===
✅ If you can handle the tones, which I believe anyone can, then it's really not a difficult language to become decent at.


=== X seems to be missing from the language. Why does Toaq not have X? ===
=== X seems to be missing from the language. Why does Toaq not have X? ===
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✅ Use this invite link: https://discord.gg/qDqDsH9
✅ Use this invite link: https://discord.gg/qDqDsH9
; See article: [[Discord]]
; See article: [[Discord]]
=== How can I join the Telegram groups? ===
✅ Use these invite links:
* ✅ general: https://t.me/joinchat/CWpuWUMl0JeW7-TdO6PnAQ
* ✅ chiejio: https://t.me/joinchat/CWpuWUPKUdAiT7KR6SiE7w
* ✅ toaq-only: https://t.me/joinchat/CWpuWUSC9pqnzPyufkQsrA
* ✅ toashuaq: https://t.me/joinchat/CWpuWUvrHSdLL3JneDjp9Q
* ✅ off-topic: https://t.me/joinchat/CWpuWVJC8_-EMukIAjMfYQ
=== What's a tonal pangram? ===
✅ In the broadest sense, a tonal pangram is a sentence that contains each tone at least once. In a more narrow sense, it is a sentence that contains each tone exactly once. The latter is a form of Toaq poetry.


=== What's the terminator of X? ===
=== What's the terminator of X? ===
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=== Is there an automatic interpreter of Toaq? Is there a translator from Toaq to logic notation? ===
=== Is there an automatic interpreter of Toaq? Is there a translator from Toaq to logic notation? ===
✅ Indeed there is!
✅ Indeed there is (for a slightly outdated version of Toaq called [[Toaq Gamma]])!


Go to https://toaq.net/zugai/ and select logic. Note that Zugaı is still in development, so some things may not work as expected.
Go to https://toaq.net/zugai/ and select logic. Note that Zugaı is still in development, so some things may not work as expected.
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