paulthomasotto

This is almost certainly a Plains Native American language from the Siouan family, which includes Lakota. I'm basing this off a few distinguishing features: - it's tonal - it uses nasal vowels (like in "huh?", sort of) - there are lateral fricatives (think "L" + "SH") - the syllable structure is mostly CV (consontant + vowel) [this is a gross oversimplification, but you can contrast that with languages like English that often have more consonant-heavy syllables like the classic example of "strengths", which is CCCVCCC when you analyze the phonemes (sound components)]