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Santilian
lištmau
[liʃtmɑʊ]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 9 September 2017
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.
Sample of SantilianCan't find any yet.
Latest vocabulary
wanlkiunanumtwenty-one
wanlkinumtwenty
diaḥatenumnineteen
Language family relationships
Language treeAnatolian
 ⤷ Proto-Anatolian
  ⤷ Hittite
   ⤷  Santilian
 
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarPharyngealGlottal
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)
  1. before the velar k and g
  2. in between and after vowels.
  3. before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l/
  4. before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l:/
  5. after n and before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l:/
  6. after n and before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /l/
  7. before a voiced consonant.
  8. before a voiced consonant.
  9. allophone of /l:/
  10. after n and before a voiced consonant, allophone of /l/
  11. only before a, i and u. can go before other letters in loan words
VowelsFrontCentralBack
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:/1Bb/b/Čč/t͡ʃ/Cc/k/2, /t͡ʃ/3Dd/d/Éé/e/4Ee/ɛ/Ēē/ɛ:/Èè/ɛ/5
Ff/f/6Gg/g/Ǧǧ/d͡ʒ/GH gh/ɣ/GN gn/ɲ/7Hh/ʔ/8, /h/Ḥḥ/ɦ̪͆ʷ/Ḫḫ/ħ/H̠ h̠/ɦ̪͆/Ii/i/Ìì/i:/9
Īī/i:/Jj/j/10Kk/k/KH kh/x/Ll/l/, [ɬ̠]11, [ɬ]12, [ɮ̠]13Mm/m/Nn/ŋ/14, /n̠/NY ny/ɲ/Oo/ɔ/15Óó/o/16Òò/ɔ/17
Pp/p/Qq/k/18Rr/r/Šš/ʃ/Ss/s/SC sc/ʃ/19Tt/t/TH th/h̪͆/20Ūū/u:/Uu/u/Ùù/u:/21
Vv/v/22Ww/w/23Xx/x/24, /ks/25Yy/j/26Žž/ʒ/Zz/z/, /t͡s/27Đđ/d͡z/Ŧŧ/t͡s/Əə/ə/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. loan words only
  2. loan words only
  3. italian loanwords only
  4. loan words only
  5. loan words only
  6. loan words only
  7. loan words only
  8. in between and after vowels.
  9. loan words only
  10. loan words only
  11. after n and before a voiceless consonant
  12. before a voiceless consonant
  13. after n and before a voiced consonant
  14. before the velar k and g
  15. loan words only
  16. loan words only
  17. loan words only
  18. loan words only
  19. before i and e, loan words only
  20. loan words only
  21. loan words only
  22. loan words only
  23. only before a, i and u. can go before other letters in loan words
  24. loan words only
  25. to be specific, only for greek or english, loan words only
  26. only before a and e. can go before other letters in load words.
  27. in Italian loan words only.
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