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Calamian Thai
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[dāj]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 18 August 2016
Language type A posteriori
Species Human/humanoid
About Calamian Thai I think this might be the first Tai-Kadai conlang ever made?

A Southwestern Thai language spoken in northern Palawan province, Philippines. Heavy influence from Calamian Tagbanwa, and lesser influence from Agutaynen, Kagayanen, Cuyonon, Tagalog, Spanish, and English. Historically written in a variant of the Tagbanwa script. Language attrition underway as speakers shift to Tagalog and Cuyonon.

Calamian Thai is a divergent branch of Southwestern Tai since it broke off around 1200, before the voicing tone split occurred. While the exact history of the Calamian Thai people is a bit murky, their presence on ??? Island in what is now northern Palawan province is recorded as early as 1500. Since then, it has simplified somewhat phonologically under influence from the surrounding Austronesian languages, with a reduction in number of tones and vowels.

However, grammatically, it has begun to undergo synthesis, essentially restructuring under a Tagbanwa base, borrowing pronouns and function markers. It is now split-ergative as a result. Lexically, it has borrowed much basic vocabulary and many names of local things from Tagbanwa, but the core of the language is still Tai.
Sample of Calamian Thai[view] Pin gun- May làwa pin gun ung yen-

Life! Don't talk to me about life.
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Latest vocabulary
gunnperson
pinvbe
làwvtell
Language family relationships
Language treeTai-Kadai
 ⤷ Proto-Tai-Kadai
  ⤷ Southern
   ⤷ Tai
    ⤷ Southwest Tai
     ⤷  Calamian Thai
[view] About Tai-KadaiThe Tai-Kadai languages are a large tonal language family of Southeast Asia with over 100 speakers. Major Tai-Kadai languages include Thai, Lao, and Shan, which are all part of the Southwestern Tai branch. Zhuang, a populous minority language of Chin...
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialDentalAlveolarPalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
Nasal m   n     ŋ  
Plosive p pʰ b   t tʰ d     k kʰ g ʔ
Fricative [β]1 [ð]2 s     [ɣ]3  
Lateral approximant     l        
Approximant       j w    
Flap     ɾ        
  1. intervocalically, allophone of /b/
  2. intervocalically, allophone of /l/
  3. intervocalically, allophone of /g/
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close í ī ǐ ɨ́ ɨ̄ ɨ̌ ú ū ǔ
Open   ä́ ǟ ä̌  
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Calamian Thai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Calamian ThaiOrthography [edit]
Áá/ä́/Aa/ǟ/Àà/ä̌/Bb/b/, [β]1Dd/d/, [ɾ]2Éé/ɨ́/Èè/ɨ̌/Ee/ɨ̄/Gg/g/, [ɣ]3Ii/ī/
Ìì/ǐ/Íí/í/Kk/k/KH kh/kʰ/Ll/l/, [ð]4Mm/m/Nn/n/NG ng/ŋ/Pp/p/PH ph/pʰ/
Qq/ʔ/Rr/ɾ/Ss/s/Tt/t/TH th/tʰ/Uu/ū/Ùù/ǔ/Úú/ú/Ww/w/Yy/j/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. intervocalically
  2. intervocalically
  3. intervocalically
  4. intervocalically
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