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Saulish
Saulihka [ʂɐulɪkɐ]*
SaulishSaulihka [ʂɐulɪkɐ]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Saulish
(C)(/j/)V syllables. /j/ can never be after a lateral or retroflex stop or before /i/. Inflections always go at the end of the word and always start with a consonant (often are just a consonant).
Pitch accent: first syllable of a word is higher than the rest.
verb inflections:
tense, aspect, mood
tenses:
-m- : past
-n- : present
-ng-: future
aspects:
-fricative- : perfect (mf, ns, ngk)
(default) : imperfect
mood: (optional)
(rising tone) : question
-ila : however
-uze : and also
-elo : if
-oli : only if
noun inflections:
-r : agent/subject
-f : benefactor
-kh : genetive
-l : object/predicate
-s : with/in/at
-z : and
-lh : or
modifiers are uninflected.
Pitch accent: first syllable of a word is higher than the rest.
verb inflections:
tense, aspect, mood
tenses:
-m- : past
-n- : present
-ng-: future
aspects:
-fricative- : perfect (mf, ns, ngk)
(default) : imperfect
mood: (optional)
(rising tone) : question
-ila : however
-uze : and also
-elo : if
-oli : only if
noun inflections:
-r : agent/subject
-f : benefactor
-kh : genetive
-l : object/predicate
-s : with/in/at
-z : and
-lh : or
modifiers are uninflected.
Sample of SaulishCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | [n] | ɳ | ŋ | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | ʈ | [ɖ] | k | g | ʔ | |||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | ʂ | ʐ | x | [ɣ] | ||||||
| Affricate | [ʈ͡ʂ] | [ɖ͡ʐ] | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | [ɮ] | ||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ] | ɻ | j | |||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɐi | ɐu |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Saulish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SaulishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | AI ai/ɐi/ | AU au/ɐu/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | DR dr/ʈ/, [ɖ] | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh[ɣ] | Ii/i/ |
| IH ih/ɪ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/l/, [ɮ] | LH lh/ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/ɳ/, [n] | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/ɻ/, [ɹ] | Ss/ʂ/, [ʈ͡ʂ] | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UH uh/ʊ/ | Vv/β/ | Xx/ʔ/ | Yy/ə/ | Zz/ʐ/, [ɖ͡ʐ] | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
