Sirti [SIRT]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sirti
Twrxhîn.
UNDERGOING GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL RESTRUCTURING
Sirti, or Turchian, is a language spoken by the Western Sirti peoples on the continent of Ester. These peoples have been known to grow large and powerful empires from their rich and fertile lands, and have always known relative wealth compared to the rest of the world.
Quite simply a language which I wanted to sound somewhat Turkic, be structured somewhat Japonic, and be relatively easy for me and others to pronounce. It erupted out of a D&D campaign I did in the past where an Empire speaking a Turkic-like language dominated everything in the world, and I wanted to flesh out that Empire's culture and language. Thus here we are.
Sirti, or Turchian, is a language spoken by the Western Sirti peoples on the continent of Ester. These peoples have been known to grow large and powerful empires from their rich and fertile lands, and have always known relative wealth compared to the rest of the world.
Quite simply a language which I wanted to sound somewhat Turkic, be structured somewhat Japonic, and be relatively easy for me and others to pronounce. It erupted out of a D&D campaign I did in the past where an Empire speaking a Turkic-like language dominated everything in the world, and I wanted to flesh out that Empire's culture and language. Thus here we are.
Language family relationships
Language treeEster-Sirti
⤷ Pakamishi
⤷ Proto-Sirti
⤷ Old Sirti
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Sirti
⤷ Pakamishi
⤷ Proto-Sirti
⤷ Old Sirti
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Sirti[view] About Ester-SirtiA family of languages dominating the Eastern Ester continent, from the Northern Dwarvish languages to the Southern Kursk dialects. Nearly all of the huge continent speaks some form of an Ester-Sirti language.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [θ]2 | (ð) | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [x]3 | (ɣ) | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | (d͡ʒ) | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]4 | |||||||||||||||
- pre-velar, allophone of /n/
- intervocalic, allophone of /t/
- post-velar, allophone of /h/
- preconsonantal; end of words, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | ʉ | (ɯ) | u u: | ||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o oˑ | ||||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ʲɛ | (ʌ) | (ɔ) | |||||
| Open | a aˑ | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | [ai]3 |
- interconsontal, allophone of /i/
- end of word, allophone of /e/
- post-consonantal, allophone of /j/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sirti. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| SirtiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| - - // | a a /a/ | æ â /aˑ/ | b b /b/ | x c /t͡s/ | xh ç /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/1 | d d /d/ | e e /e/ | é ê /e:/ |
| ea ea /ʲɛ/ | f f /f/ | g g /g/ | gh gh /ɣ/2 | h h /h/ | i i /i/, [ɪ]3 | î î /i:/ | j j /ʒ/ | k k /k/ |
| l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/ | o o /o/, /ɔ/4 | ô ô /oˑ/ | p p /p/ | r r /r/, [ɾ]5 | s s /s/ | sh ş /ʃ/ |
| t t /t/ | u u /ɯ/6, /u/ | ü û /u:/ | w ui /ʉ/ | w uo /ʌ/7 | v v /v/ | y y /j/ | z z /z/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
- interconsontal
- loan words only
- preconsonantal; end of words
- loan words only
- loan words only
