Tomken (A1-0)

Tomken was a digital language engineered during the first thousand years of Ferristian history. After initial confirmation of non-Ferristian life, it was adapted to allow species other than the cybernetically-modified Ferrisitian natives [Referred to as Amicem internally] to perceive it without needing to learn the sign language it originated from.

Verbal Tomken can be written using the English alphabet. Its phoneme inventory is as follows: a, e, i, o, u, m, p, f, v, t, ty, ts, s, z, r, ch, zh, sh, y, ny, k, h, and '. Deviations from English pronunciation include the following: e is pronounced as /ɛ/; i is pronounced as /ɪ/; a is pronounced as /æ/; ty is pronounced as /c/. It should also be noted that unlike in English, the pronunciation of vowels does not change based on their location in a word or proximity to other letters.

Amicem will generally communicate in Digital Tomken when speaking to and amongst one another. Amic augmentations immediately convert their digital ‘speech’ to Verbal Tomken if they need or want to speak to non-cybernetics. Tomken has thereby spread from the Ferristian capital station to the many systems of the Ferrisitan Commonwealth.