Sinatolean

Sinatolean(sinadoleya; [ɕinaˈdɔleja]) is the official and national language of the Sinatolean Federation, a federative archipelago nation. Before the unification and subsequent formation of the Federation, Sinatolean was still used as a lingua franca in the region as far back as around 900 BCE. It is the most spoken Sinatolean language, with an estimated 680,000 total native speakers as of 2024.

Sinatolean is a heavily agglutinative language. In fact, the autonym of the language is itself an agglutinated phrase:

sin       -a        dol      -e   ya
person -SING island -PL speech

Thus, sinadoleya means "speech of the island person".

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t d	(c) (ɟ)	k g	ʔ
Nasal	m	(ɱ)	n	(ɲ)	ŋ
Fricative	(f) (v)		s z, (ɕ) (ʑ)		(x)	h
Affricate			t͡ɕ d͡ʑ
Semivowel	w			j
Lateral		l̪~l

Broad and slender

Like in Irish, the realisation of consonants change depending on the vowel after it. For example, a /g/ before an /i/, /ø/ or /e/(slender vowels) changes to /ɟ/, while the same for /k/ changes it to /c/. These changes are not shown in the orthography.

Phoneme	Broad	Example
	Slender
/p/	/p/	pola [pɔla] "move(jussive)"
	/f/	pisani [fisaɲi] "those dogs"
/b/	/b/	boso [bɔsɔ] "roof"
	/v/	labin [laviɲ] "wave"
/t/		tolo [tɔlɔ] "triggerfish"
/d/	/d/	dole [dɔle] "islands"
	/ɟ/	didika [ɟiɟika] "beach"
/k/	/k/	angaka [aŋaka] "temple, shrine"
	/c/	kēnene [ceːɲeɲe] "waterfalls"
/g/	/g/	ganeu [gaɲəw] "death"
	/ɟ/	ginja [ɟiɲd͡ʑa] "june, 6 months"
/ʔ/		āyo [ʔajɔ] "hey (Sinatʼ regional variation)", janiʼpi [d͡ʑaɲiʔfi] "jasmine tea"
/h/	/x/	sahala [saxala] "Sahara desert"
	/h/	mēhi [meːhi] "May, 5 months"
/s/	/s/	sāno [saːno] "wind"
	/ɕ/	sinadoleya [ɕinaˈdɔleja] "Sinatolean language"

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e ø
Mid		(ə)
Open-mid			ɔ
Open		a