Swail [WIL]
▲
0▲ 0 ▼ 0
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 1 April 2018
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Swail
Swail (Or "Swa'a" in Swail) is a modern Semitic language that has many similarities with Arabic and Hebrew, but mostly Arabic. It also has its own writing system called "Swali" which is consists of dots, hollow circles, curved lines etc. and it's also an Abjad. This language is made for fun and to try a language with Semitic roots and common Semitic rules.
Language family relationships
[view] About SemiticThe Semitic languages are a language family originating in the Near East whose living representatives are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in large expatriate communit...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | b | t | d | k | ||||||||||||||||
Fricative | v | θ | ð | s | ʃ | χ | h | |||||||||||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
Trill | ʀ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Swail. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SwailOrthography | |||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/χ/ | DH dh/ð/ | Ee/e/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
Oo/o/ | Rr/ʀ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/d/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Ττ/t/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Why are the verbs and adjectives only have three consonants?
This will explain the simple rules of Swail/Swa'a
02-Apr-18 17:02