Santilian [LSM]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Santilian
Santilian is the last known member of the Anatolian language family and the only descendant of the Hittite language. the Santilian language is spoken in the Small (fictional) middle eastern country of Santilia near Isreal.
the Santilian language, being the only Anatolian language left on the planet, shares alot of its grammar from Hittite, having over 9 grammatical cases (all suffixes) and 5 honourific suffixes (all prefixes)
The grammatical cases are:
Nominative (the subject)
Vocative (somebody is being adressed, with or without a preposition)
Accusative (the object)
Genitive (the word is in possesion)
daitive/locative (something is given to another/indicates a location)
Ablative (motion away from something)
Allative (going to something)
instrumental (with something)
Ergative (the noun is the subject of a transitive verb)
more specific info about the grammatical cases and all of the honourific cases will be in a separate article.
the Santilian language, being the only Anatolian language left on the planet, shares alot of its grammar from Hittite, having over 9 grammatical cases (all suffixes) and 5 honourific suffixes (all prefixes)
The grammatical cases are:
Nominative (the subject)
Vocative (somebody is being adressed, with or without a preposition)
Accusative (the object)
Genitive (the word is in possesion)
daitive/locative (something is given to another/indicates a location)
Ablative (motion away from something)
Allative (going to something)
instrumental (with something)
Ergative (the noun is the subject of a transitive verb)
more specific info about the grammatical cases and all of the honourific cases will be in a separate article.
Sample of SantilianCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m m: | n̠: n̠ | (ɲ) | ŋ1 | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | b b: | t t: | d d: | (k) (kʷ) k: | g g: | ʔ2 | |||||||||||
Fricative | (f) (f:) | (v) (v:) | s s: | z | ʃ ʃ: | ʒ ʒ: | x | ɣ | ħ | h (h̪͆) | ɦ̪͆ ɦ̪͆ʷ | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s (t͡s:) | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l l: | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | [ɬ]3 [ɬ:]4 [ɬ̠:]5 [ɬ̠]6 | ɮ7 ɮ:8 [ɮ̠:]9 [ɮ̠]10 | ||||||||||||||||
Approximant | (j) (j:) | w11 | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r r: |
Blends | ks | sk | (tʃi) | (tʃe) |
- before the velar k and g
- in between and after vowels.
- before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l/
- before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l:/
- after n and before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l:/
- after n and before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l/
- before a voiced consonant.
- before a voiced consonant.
- allophone of /l:/
- after n and before a voiced consonant, allophone of /l/
- only before a, i and u. can go before other letters in loan words
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i (i:) | u u: | ||||
Close-mid | (e) | (o) | ||||
Mid | (ə) ə: | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | (ɔ) (ɔ:) | ||||
Open | ɑ ɑ: |
Polyphthongs | əʊ | ɑʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Santilian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SantilianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Āā/ɑ:/ | Aa/ɑ/ | Àà/ɑ:/1 | Bb/b/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Cc/k/2, /t͡ʃ/3 | Dd/d/ | Éé/e/4 | Ee/ɛ/ | Ēē/ɛ:/ | Èè/ɛ/5 |
Ff/f/6 | Gg/g/ | Ǧǧ/d͡ʒ/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | GN gn/ɲ/7 | Hh/ʔ/8, /h/ | Ḥḥ/ɦ̪͆ʷ/ | Ḫḫ/ħ/ | H̠ h̠/ɦ̪͆/ | Ii/i/ | Ìì/i:/9 |
Īī/i:/ | Jj/j/10 | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/l/, [ɬ̠]11, [ɬ]12, [ɮ̠]13 | Mm/m/ | Nn/ŋ/14, /n̠/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Oo/ɔ/15 | Óó/o/16 | Òò/ɔ/17 |
Pp/p/ | Qq/k/18 | Rr/r/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | SC sc/ʃ/19 | Tt/t/ | TH th/h̪͆/20 | Ūū/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Ùù/u:/21 |
Vv/v/22 | Ww/w/23 | Xx/x/24, /ks/25 | Yy/j/26 | Žž/ʒ/ | Zz/z/, /t͡s/27 | Đđ/d͡z/ | Ŧŧ/t͡s/ | Əə/ə/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only
- loan words only
- italian loanwords only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- in between and after vowels.
- loan words only
- loan words only
- after n and before a voiceless consonant
- before a voiceless consonant
- after n and before a voiced consonant
- before the velar k and g
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- before i and e, loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- only before a, i and u. can go before other letters in loan words
- loan words only
- to be specific, only for greek or english, loan words only
- only before a and e. can go before other letters in load words.
- in Italian loan words only.