Santhian [NHN]
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[Deactivated User] on 11 September 2018
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Santhian
Santhian (natively: Sanṯâr | /ˈsanθaːɾ/) was a Klarian language that was spoken throughout the Khazaar empire. Most religious & legal texts from the Khazaar empire are written in Santhian, & it is still spoken as a liturgical language in some countries.
Language family relationships
Language treeKlarian
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Proto-Klaric
⤷ Western Klarian
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Santhian
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Proto-Klaric⤷ Western Klarian
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SanthianPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Mid | e̞: | ə | o̞: | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a1 a: | |||||
- When spelled in the arabic script, it is noted wordfinally with a heh.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Santhian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| SanthianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/1 | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Çç/t͡ʃ/ | Ḏḏ/ð/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ğğ/ɣ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ |
| Şş/ʃ/ | Ṯṯ/θ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Ææ/ə/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- When spelled in the arabic script, it is noted wordfinally with a heh.
