Saitlaa [SAI]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Saitlaa
Saitlaa was originally designed as an a priori isolating language. However, it's been changed to an agglutinative-fusional language with Austronesian alignment, having both its grammar and vocabulary influenced by Tagalog, Korean, and to a lesser extent Japanese. There are still many a priori features and words, but it's now a mixed language.
The native script of Saitlaa is Hangul. When transliterated to Latin, it uses its own system and not the same as any of the Korean romanisation system.
The native script of Saitlaa is Hangul. When transliterated to Latin, it uses its own system and not the same as any of the Korean romanisation system.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n nʲ1 | ŋ2 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ3 | b | t tʲ4 | d | k kʲ5 | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | [f]6 | [v]7 | s | ɕ | [ʑ]8 | x | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ɕ | [d͡ʑ]9 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l10 lʲ11 | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [w]12 | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- coda position only
- coda position only (word final or followed by a consonant)
- onset position only
- onset position only
- onset position only
- when intervocalically part of the coda cluster <lp>, allophone of /p/
- when intervocalically part of the coda cluster <lb>, allophone of /b/
- when in intervocalic position, allophone of /lʲ/
- when in intervocalic position, allophone of /nʲ/
- onset position only
- coda position only
- when part of certain coda consonantal clusters, allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i [i:]1 | y [y:]2 | u u: | |||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o [o:]3 | |||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɔ ɔ: | |||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | oi̯4 | ui̯5 | yi̯6 |
- allophone of /ui̯/
- allophone of /yi̯/
- allophone of /oi̯/
- cannot occur without a coda consonant
- cannot occur without a coda consonant
- cannot occur without a coda consonant
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Saitlaa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SaitlaaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Ää/æ/ | Åå/ɔ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/, [v]1 | Čč/t͡ɕ/ | Dd/d/ | Ëë/ə/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/2, [w]3 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ø/ |
| Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | Üü/y/ | Uu/u/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- when intervocalically part of the coda cluster <lb>
- onset position only
- when part of certain coda consonantal clusters
