Xuyissan [XYST]
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[Deactivated User] on 23 August 2021
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Xuyissan
An isolate spoken by the Orchidic folk of Asilim's rainforests, a race inspired by real-life orchid bees. Purposely created to feel airy and somewhat arcane, its current features include:
On a meta level, Xuyissan is an attempt for me to make an isolating language that also takes on more naturalistic qualities and considerations, like sound changes and grammar evolution. Aka, trying to level up my conlanging skills :)
- ✴︎ a lack of velars
✴︎ phonemic aspiration for stops and certain fricatives
✴︎ ejectives
✴︎VOS word order
On a meta level, Xuyissan is an attempt for me to make an isolating language that also takes on more naturalistic qualities and considerations, like sound changes and grammar evolution. Aka, trying to level up my conlanging skills :)
Sample of XuyissanCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ pʰ | b | t tʼ tʰ | d | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ ɸʰ | [β] | s sʰ | z | ʃ | ʒ | ||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ t͡sʰ | d͡z | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Xuyissan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 XuyissanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | C' c'/t͡sʼ/ | Ch ch/t͡sʰ/ | Dd/d/ | Dz dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Fh fh/ɸʰ/ |
| Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | P' p'/pʼ/ | Ph ph/pʰ/ | Rr/r/ |
| Ss/s/ | Ss ss/sʰ/ | Tt/t/ | T' t'/tʼ/ | Th th/tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Ββ[β] |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
