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Skyite
Shaite [t͡ʃit]
Shaite [t͡ʃit]
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[Deactivated User] on 31 January 2018
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Skyite
Skyite /skaɪt/, native pronunciation Shaite /t͡ʃit/
Features:
No articles.
A voiced constant followed by a voiceless becomes voiceless: dt /dt/ > /t/, gk /gk/ > /k/, bp /bp/ > /p/, zs /zs/, > /s/. xc /d͡zt͡s/ > /t͡s/, ĵsh /d͡ʒt͡ʃ/ > /t͡ʃ/ ghch /ʒʃ/ > /ʃ/, đŧ /ðθ/ > /θ/, and finally vf /vf/ > /f/. The voiced consonant is pronounced when prefixes are added.
Proper nouns and names are always spelled lowercase, unless in CAPS or in the first word of the sentence.
Still work in progress.
Words:
Every word is made from scratch, with some words from other languages.
Features:
No articles.
A voiced constant followed by a voiceless becomes voiceless: dt /dt/ > /t/, gk /gk/ > /k/, bp /bp/ > /p/, zs /zs/, > /s/. xc /d͡zt͡s/ > /t͡s/, ĵsh /d͡ʒt͡ʃ/ > /t͡ʃ/ ghch /ʒʃ/ > /ʃ/, đŧ /ðθ/ > /θ/, and finally vf /vf/ > /f/. The voiced consonant is pronounced when prefixes are added.
Proper nouns and names are always spelled lowercase, unless in CAPS or in the first word of the sentence.
Still work in progress.
Words:
Every word is made from scratch, with some words from other languages.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m m̩ | n n̩ | [ŋ]1 [ŋ̩]2 | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ3 | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l l̩ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j4 | (w)5 | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r r̩ |
- when on /k/, /g/ or /x/, allophone of /n/
- when on /k/, /g/ or /x/, allophone of /n̩/
- commonly used
- in some cases (like Yute /jut/)
- very rare
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
Close | i | y | u | |||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
Open-mid | ɛ1 | ɔ | ||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||
Open | a | ɑ |
- silent at end (unless there a vowel is before or after)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Skyite. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
SkyiteOrthography | |||||||||
Aa/æ/, /a/ | Bb pei /b/ | Cc cai /t͡s/ | CH ch aigh /d͡ʒ/1, /ʃ/ | Dd tei /d/ | Ee i /ɛ/2, /e/ | Ff fai /f/ | Gg kei /g/ | GH gh ghai /ʒ/ | Hh eich /h/ |
Ii/i/, /ɪ/ | Jj jota /x/ | Ĵĵ ĵei /d͡ʒ/3 | Kk kai /k/ | Ll el /l/ | Mm em /m/ | Nn en /n/, [ŋ̩]4, [ŋ]5 | Oo/ɑ/, /o/ | Pp pai /p/ | Rr rai /r/ |
Ss sai /s/ | SH sh aich /t͡ʃ/ | Tt tai /t/ | Uu/u/, /ʊ/ | Vv fei /v/ | Xx cei /d͡z/ | Yy/d͡ʒ/6, /ɔ/, /j/7, /y/ | Zz sei /z/ | Đđ ŧei /ð/ | Ŧŧ ŧai /θ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
- in some cases
- silent at end (unless there a vowel is before or after)
- commonly used
- when on /k/, /g/ or /x/
- when on /k/, /g/ or /x/
- very rare, in loan words: (Yade /d͡ʒæd/)
- in some cases (like Yute /jut/)
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