Draft:Sheetwum
Sheetwem is a Shidinido by Rachel1211. It is an agglutinative language and a 'worldlang', i.e. the vocabulary is from unrelated languages all over the world. The use of Shidinn radical is remained but dimished in Sheetwem.
Alphabet
There are 45 letters, including 43 basic and 2 extended letters ( and N).
A大 Бb夕 B白 Cc亡 Dd刀 Σ幺 Ee巳 Ff下 Gg马 Hh九 i工 Jj丁 Kk反 Ll乙 Mm巾 Nn几 Γ兀 广 Oo口 Pp尸 Qq中 Rr尺 Ss乡 Tt七 ⊥上 Uu午 Vv以 Ww山 Xx乂 Yy丫 Zz之 一 又 了 千 与 厶 亻 月 廿 入 日 人 才 卜
Phonology
There are 25 consonants, 13 vowels and 3 gliding tones in Sheetwem.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolar-Fricative | Palatal | Velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | /p/ [b] | /t/ [d] | /ts/ [ds] | /tɕ/ [dj] | /k/ [g] |
Aspirated | /pʰ/ [p] | /tʰ/ [t] | /tsʰ/ [ts] | /tɕʰ/ [tj] | /kʰ/ [k] |
Fricative | /f/ [f] | /θ/ [th] | /s/ [s] | /ɕ/ [sj] | /x/ [h] |
Approximant | /w/ [w] | /l/ [l] | /ɹ/ [zs] | /j/ [y] | /ʔ/ ['] |
Nasal | /m/ [m] | /n/ [n] | /n͡z/ [nz] | /ɲ/ [nj] | /ŋ/ [ng] |
Monophthong | /i/ [i] | /y/ [ui] | /u/ [u] | Diphthong | /əj/ [ey] | /əw/ [ow] | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/e/ [e] | /ə/ [eo] | /o/ [o] | /oj/ [oy] | /ew/ [ew] | ||||||
/ɐ/ [a] | /ɐi/ [ay] | /ɐw/ [aw] |
Morphology
Words of Sheetwem are not based on Shidinn Hanzi but rather borrowed from unrelated language families around the world, and less commonly a-priori. Part of speech includes noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, and so on.
Radical
The Shidinn radicals (with phonetics changes) are partly selected as radicals of Sheetwem. e.g.
[bay-gu] "fish"
[a-da] "nature"