Srekhil [SKH]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Srekhil
Srekhil (sre khil "ancestor-speech") is the language of the Sretso people, a horse-riding nomadic society with a complex ancestor-based religion and strict societal division.
Cool shit:
Cool shit:
- Isolating/analytic
- V2-SOV word order with strict head-finality, and Austronesian-esque verbal proclitics to mark the case role of the topic
- Lack of marked tense, but an abundance of modal and aspectual auxiliaries, including a dedicated prefix marking the perfect
- Large pronoun system that marks 1First person (person)
speaker, signer, etc; I/2Second person (person)
addressee (you)/3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee/4Fourth person (person)
obviative, not presentth person, MMasculine gender (gender)
masculine or male/FFeminine gender (gender)
feminine or female gender (even in first person), and multiple honorific levels - Detailed syntax and transformations—with clitics(!)
- Pluractionality for iterative/multi-object phrases
- Base-18 number system
Sample of Srekhil[view] Ħa yo peš sa ňe yaššai ľiʔ yiʔ čwe mwiš peš koʔtsal.
It is better to have a broken bone than a broken reputation.[view all texts]
It is better to have a broken bone than a broken reputation.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | t tʰ | k kʰ | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | θ | s | ʃ | ħ | h | |||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [ɔ]4 | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɔ̯ | aɪ̯ |
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Srekhil. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SrekhilOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a/a/ | ai/aɪ̯/ | ao/aɔ̯/ | č/t͡ʃ/ | e/e/, [ɛ] | h/h/ | i/i/, [ɪ] | k/k/ | kh/kʰ/ | l/l/ |
| ľ/ʎ/ | m/m/ | ň/ɲ/ | n/n/ | o/o/, [ɔ] | p/p/ | ph/pʰ/ | r/ɾ/ | š/ʃ/ | s/s/ |
| t/t/ | th/tʰ/ | ts/t͡s/ | u/u/, [ʊ] | w/w/ | y/j/ | ħ/ħ/ | ŧ/θ/ | ʔ/ʔ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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