Sikrīn [SIKR]
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Sikrīn
Sikrīn [sikʁi:n]*
SikrīnSikrīn [sikʁi:n]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sikrīn
Sikrīn is the language of the Sikri people, a diasporic culture indigenous to the Sathâta river valley, on the eastern edge of the Inner Sea.
[OOC: Sikrīn is meant to be vaguely reminiscent of Hebrew, hopefully without being too obvious about it. If you notice any similarities, that's why.]
[OOC: Sikrīn is meant to be vaguely reminiscent of Hebrew, hopefully without being too obvious about it. If you notice any similarities, that's why.]
Sample of Sikrīn[view] Uyikha'it layi'árashkhāl lelasan'ā návi ulepélem'ā návi. / / Uyikhi'it, beshinathīn shekhim megerakh, leket khim liginitim lesétef pe’ershí’ith Shin'ar, uridinitim khim peyun. / / Upilimitimyinim khim ulekhim, lapelket "varakivirim nim lerekhofum, uvasapinirim nim lekhum betsafirīn" peltek. Uyikha&apo...[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | x | ʁ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]1 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ʁ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i1 i: | u u:2 | ||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ̝]3 | |||||||
| Mid | o̞ o̞:4 | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ:5 | [ɜ̟̹]6 | ||||||
| Open | ä7 ä: | |||||||
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- allophone of /ɛ/
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Stress informationStress is on the last syllable by default. A vowel with an acute (e.g. <á>) or circumflex (e.g. <â>) diacritic indicates that its syllable is stressed instead. If a word contains more than one acute or circumflex, the last one gets primary stress.
Other[ʋ~w], [f~ɸ], [v~β], [x~χ], [ʁ~ʀ], [h~ħ], [ä~a~ɐ~ɑ], [ɛ~e̞], [o~ɔ̝] are all in free variation.
/ɛ/ can be pronounced [ɜ~œ̜] when unstressed immediately following the first consonant in a word.
/ʁ/ becomes [r] when the following consonant is /x/.
/ɛ/ can be pronounced [ɜ~œ̜] when unstressed immediately following the first consonant in a word.
/ʁ/ becomes [r] when the following consonant is /x/.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sikrīn. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SikrīnOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | á/ä/1 | ā/ä:/ | a/ä/ | â/ä:/2 | b/b/ | d/d/ | ê/ɛ:/3 | ē/ɛ:/ | e/ɛ/ | é/ɛ/4 |
| f/f/ | g/g/ | h/h/ | ī/i:/ | í/i/5 | î/i:/6 | i/i/ | k/k/ | kh/x/ | l/l/ | m/m/ |
| n/n/ | ô/o̞:/7 | o/o̞/ | ō/o̞:/ | ó/o̞/8 | p/p/ | r/ʁ/ | s/s/ | sh/ʃ/ | t/t/ | th/θ/ |
| ts/t͡s/ | û/u:/9 | ū/u:/ | u/u/ | ú/u/10 | v/v/ | w/ʋ/ | y/j/ | z/z/ | ŋ/ŋ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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