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Shiro
Cileli
[ʃileli]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 30 June 2014
Language type Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species Human/humanoid
About Shiro Shiro is an attempt at an artistic language that doesn't aim to be naturalistic. A grand majority of the words in Shiro are split into three classes - air, water, and earth. Nouns and verbs govern the class - all adjectives and adverbs (and particles) must agree in class with the head of the phrase.

Speakers of the language believe that a thought is most beautiful if it can be uttered by using words of matching class. Frequent clashes between class in the same sentence is considered to be poor speaking, so many words have nearly identical synonyms but of a different class just to keep sentences sounding beautiful.

Shiro is pro-drop and will avoid pronouns if possible, only using them when absolutely necessary or to indicate possession. Word order is typically SOV, however topicalization can bring other objects to the forefront of a sentence.

All vowels in adjectives must agree with the noun being described. In dictionary forms, the earth form (with vowels <a> and <y>) is considered the base form.
Sample of Shiro[view] Cileli me le'eme.

I speak English
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Sound samples in Shiro
Some sound samples of Shiro. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Cileli me le'eme.
I speak English
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
Nasal m   n       ŋ  
Plosive p b   t d       k g ʔ
Fricative   f s ʃ       h
Lateral approximant     l          
Approximant         j w    
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i   u
Close-mid e   o
Mid   ə  
Open   ä  
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shiro. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ShiroOrthography [edit]
'/ʔ/Aa/ä/Bb/b/Cc/ʃ/Dd/d/Ee/e/Ff/f/Gg/g/Hh/h/Ii/i/Jj/j/Kk/k/
Ll/l/Mm/m/Ññ/ŋ/Nn/n/Oo/o/Pp/p/Ss/s/Tt/t/Uu/u/Ww/w/Yy/ə/
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    Typological information for Shiro

    Verb agreementNone
    Marked tense (verb)Past, Present, Future
    Noun-adjective orderAdjective first
    Primary word orderSOV
    Number of nominal casesThree cases

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