Saiyotian [SYS]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Saiyotian
The old language of the planet Airenes (previously Saiyot), that the language Airenes has mostly supplanted.
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | t | k | ʔ | |||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʒ | x | ɣ | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | ɭ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɻ | [j]1 | [ɰ]2 |
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /ʊ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | ʉ | |||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||||||
Open-mid | [ɛ]1 | [ɔ]2 | ||||||||
Near-open | [ɐ]3 | |||||||||
Open | ä |
- allophone of /e̞/
- allophone of /o̞/
- allophone of /ä/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Saiyotian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SaiyotianOrthography | ||||||||||
Aa/ä/, [ɐ] | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Ee/e̞/, [ɛ] | Ff/f/ | Gg/ɣ/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/ɪ/, [j], [ɪ] | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/ɭ/ | Mm/m/ |
Nn/n/ | Oo/o̞/, [ɔ] | Rr/ɻ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʉ/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/ʔ/, // | Yy/ʊ/, [ʊ], [ɰ] | Zz/z/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
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