Draft:Sheetwum

Sheetwem (Sheetwem:  /ɕi.tʰum/) 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 in Sheetwem. 43 of them are derived from the original Shidinn alphabets.

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

Sheetwem extended letters:  Єє for recording foreign languages only.

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]	 /ɨ~ɹˌ/ [q]		 /u/ [u]	Diphthong	 /əj/ [ey]	 /uj/ [uy]	є /iw/ [iw]	 /əw/ [ow]
	 /e/ [e]		 /ə/ [eo]	 /o/ [o]				 /oj/ [oy]	 /ew/ [ew]
	 /ɐ/ [a]						 /ɐj/ [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"

Vocab

Pronouns

 [ngwo] First person.

 [na] Second person.

 [ta] Third person.

- [-eng] Plural suffix.

Nouns

Nature

 [ada] Nature. Heaven.  [toy] Sky.  [the] Earth.  [komoy] Cosmos.  [sun] Sun.  [mun] Moon.  [opto] Light.

Time

 [sjibo] Date.  [anwo] Morning.  [sjiwo] Afternoon.

Marine

 [baygu] Fish.

Plants

 [wangku] Tree.

Eco

 [daude] earth. Soil.

Waters

 [iyau] Water.  [kafa] River.

Opposition

 [sjafo] Negative particle. Not.

Sound

 [ton] Voice.

Script

 [kat'tjip] Alphabet.  [we'nziana] A kind of ancient script for Sheetwem.

Transcription of foreign languages

English

See 希顶英语

Other

Sheetwem/Weedy