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Revision as of 01:07, 30 September 2014


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Shitu / Khengese
Śituul
Pronounced: Native: /ʃi.'tɯːɭ/
Anglicized: /'ʃi.tu/
Timeline and Universe: Alternate Earth
Species: Human
Spoken: Island of Kheng
Writing system: Cujaam, abugida
Genealogy: Śituul is a language isolate
Typology
Morphological type: Somewhat Isolating
Morphosyntactic alignment: Ergative-Absolutive
Basic word order: Typically VSO
Credits
Creator: D. Matthew Mikalowsky
Created: January 2014

Background

Śituul is a language isolate spoken by the Khengaali people on the Island of Kheng (an island that exists on an Earth in the distant future that is composed of land that was a part of present day Brazil). The name of the language is a compound word meaning "speaking tongue" (śi- being the verbal root for "to speak" and tuul meaning "tongue").

The language is mostly isolating, except for the usage of noun incorporation to express the morphosyntactic alignment (absolutive arguments are incorporated), and in the process of verb serialization in which verb stems can sometime merge.

Phonology

Śituul has 19 consonants, three pure vowels, one reduced vowel, and one diphthong (if you don't count the other vowel combinations with /j/).

Consonants

Plosives and certain approximants in Śituul are classified as either plain or strong. In most cases, strong consonants are aspirated, with the exception of w in which case the distinction is one of voicing.

Whenever a strong consonant is followed by /j/ an affricate is formed that assimilates to the POA of the strong consonant.

Labial Coronal Dorsal
Nasal m [m] n [n] -n [ŋ]
Plosive Plain p [p] t [t] k [k]
Strong [pʰ] [tʰ] [kʰ]
Fricative f [f] s [s] and ś [ʃ] h [ç~x]
Affricate ß [p͜f] c [t͜ʃ] x [k͜x]
Approximant -l [l~ɭ] and r [ɹ~ɻ] j [j]
Approximant Plain w [w]
Strong [ʍ]

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i [i]
ii [iː]
u [ɯ]
uu [ɯː]
Middle ë [ə]
Low a [ɑ]
aa [ɑː]
Diphthong å [ɑɪ̯]

Script

Script testing with tables:

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Ṗaåjët kuwi.

Creator Comments

I have worked on many different conlangs in the past, and all have died a slow painful death. This one was meant to be one I could focus on for the long haul and finally move from being a "scrapper" (i.e. someone who creates the skeleton of a language and then immediately stops working on it in favor of a new language) into being more of a "completist." I have had some success, but my attention has wandered still.

What I aim to do here, is create a mostly naturalistic language that integrates features from some of my scrapped languages over the years, as well as develop a language that is pleasing to me. This page will likely be slow to update, but rest assured that the script, at the very least, will be described fully here! (Scripts tend to be the feature of languages that I work on the hardest and enjoy creating the most.)