Shiqua [SIQ]
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Shiqua
Shíqu. [ʃíkʌʌ̀]
ShiquaShíqu. [ʃíkʌʌ̀]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Shiqua
Shiqu is the language spoken by the Ishifi, a shape-shifting species of aliens living in the high mountains and plateaus of their home planet. This language's writing system is a reverse abugida, and features mainly high vowels and soft cosonants due to their fangs and small mouths.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | ɱ | ɳ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | θ | s | ʃ | ʝ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ʈ͡ʂ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ʎ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | kʌ | ks | hw | sf | ʝɘ | fw |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i᷅ í ì ī | u᷅ ú ù ū | ||||||
| Near-close | ʊ᷅ ʊ́ ʊ̀ ʊ̄ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e᷅ é è ē | ɘ᷅ ɘ́ ɘ̀ ɘ̄ | ||||||
| Mid | o̞᷅ ó̞ ò̞ ō̞ | |||||||
| Open-mid | ʌ᷅ ʌ́ ʌ̀ ʌ̄ | |||||||
| Open | ä᷅ ä́ ä̀ ǟ | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shiqua. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ShiquaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Āā/ē/ | Àà/è/ | Ââ/e᷅/ | Áá/é/ | A' a'/ä́/ | A- a-/ǟ/ | A. a./ä̀/ | A/ a//ä᷅/ | Bb/pʰ/ | Ĉĉ/t͡ʃ/ | Ēē/ɘ̄/ |
| Éé/ɘ́/ | Èè/ɘ̀/ | Êê/ɘ᷅/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Hh/hw/ | Íí/í/ | Īī/ī/ | Îî/i᷅/ | Ìì/ì/ | Ll/ʎ/ | Mm/ɱ/ |
| Nn/ɳ/ | Óó/ʊ́/ | Ōō/ʊ̄/ | Òò/ʊ̀/ | Ôô/ʊ᷅/ | O' o'/ó̞/ | O- o-/ō̞/ | O. o./ò̞/ | O/ o//o̞᷅/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/kʌ/ |
| Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | SF sf/sf/ | Tt/ʈ͡ʂ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Úú/ú/ | Ùù/ù/ | Ûû/u᷅/ | Ūū/ū/ | U' u'/ʌ́/ | U- u-/ʌ̄/ |
| U. u./ʌ̀/ | U/ u//ʌ᷅/ | Ww/w/ | Ŵŵ/fw/ | Xx/ks/ | Ŷŷ/ʝɘ/ | Yy/ʝ/ | Þþ/θ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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