Xiyani [XYA]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Xiyani
Spoken by the people of Xiyan, rather analytical, with a particle system, and a conscript in the works.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | d | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ʈ͡ʂ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | [ʊ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | ai | ao | au | ei | oa |
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Xiyani. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 XiyaniOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ə] | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/ | Oo/o/, [ʊ] | Pp/p/ | Qq/t͡ʃ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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