Seylese [TMBRE]
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Language type
Not specified
Place & SpeakersSeylese is spoken by a population of around 70,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Seylese
Seylonese is part of the Romance family from the Indo-European language family. It descends from a version of classical Latin that arrived in South Asia with the spread of the Roman Empire. It bears similarities to Sardinian and Southern Italian languages but has had extensive influences from Dravidian languages.
It is spoken natively in the southern states of India and Sri Lanka and is part of the Merido-Romance family.
It is spoken natively in the southern states of India and Sri Lanka and is part of the Merido-Romance family.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | ȵ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | ʈ | ɖ | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | [β]2 | (f)3 | [ð]4 | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | [ɣ]5 | (h)6 | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | ɻ | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of n before k and g
- occurs as an allophone of b especially in fast speech, allophone of /b/
- from loanwords especially latin ones
- allophone of /d̪/
- allophone of /g/
- from loanwords from sanskrit or surrounding indic languages
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | [ɯ]1 | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | aʊ |
- It occurs at the end of words and happens around retroflex and rhotic consonants, allophone of /u:/
- occurs when a is not in the first syllable of a words, written as e and can be confused with e, allophone of /a:/
- happens as an allophone of ai, especially at the end of words
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Seylese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SeyleseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | AI ai/aɪ/ | AU au/aʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | CH ch/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d̪/ | DH dh/ɖ/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ |
| Ee/e/, [ə]1 | EE ee/e:/ | Ff/f/2 | Gg/g/ | GN gn/ȵ/ | Hh/h/3 | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/ | Ll/l/ |
| LH lh/ɭ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | NH nh/ɳ/ | Oo/o/ | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RH rh/ɻ/ | RR rr/r/ |
| Ss/s/ | SCH sch/ɕ/ | SH sh/ʂ/ | Tt/t̪/ | TH th/ʈ/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/ʋ/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/t͡s/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- occurs when a is not in the first syllable of a words, written as e and can be confused with e
- from loanwords especially latin ones, loan words only
- from loanwords from sanskrit or surrounding indic languages, loan words only
