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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.
| No. | Upper case | Lower case | Sino case | Pronunciation | Latin transcription | Substitute character(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | | | /ɐ/ | a | a |
| 2 | Б | b | | /p(o)/ | b | b |
| 3 | B | | | /kʷ(u)/ | gw | B |
| 4 | C | c | | /kʷʰ(u)/ | kw | c |
| 5 | D | d | | /t(e)/ | d | d |
| 6 | Σ | | | /i/ | i | E / ε / Σ |
| 7 | E | e | | /e/ | e | e |
| 8 | F | f | | /f(o)/ | f | f |
| 9 | G | g | | /k(e)/ | g | g |
| 10 | H | h | | /x(e)/ | h | h |
| 11 | | i | | /i̯/ | y[1] | i |
| 12 | J | j | | /tɕ(i)/ | dj | j |
| 13 | K | k | | /kʰ(e)/ | k | k |
| 14 | L | l | | /l(e)/ | l | l |
| 15 | M | m | | /m(o)/ | m | m |
| 16 | N | n | | /n(e)/ | n | n |
| 17 | Γ | | | /ɲ(i)/ | nj | G / Γ |
| 18 | | | | /ŋ(e)/ | ng | N |
| 19 | O | o | | /o/ | o | o |
| 20 | P | p | | /pʰ(o)/ | p | p |
| 21 | Q | q | | /tɕʰ(i)/ | tj | q |
| 22 | R | r | | /ɹ(ɹˌ)/ | zs | r |
| 23 | S | s | | /s(ɹˌ)/ | s | s |
| 24 | T | t | | /tʰ(e)/ | t | t |
| 25 | T | | | /θ(e)/ | th | T / ⊥ |
| 26 | U | u | | /u̯/ | w[2] | u |
| 27 | V | v | | /u/ | u | v |
| 28 | W | w | | /w(o)/ | w | w |
| 29 | X | x | | /ɕ(i)/ | sj | x |
| 30 | Y | y | | /j(e)/ | y | y |
| 31 | Z | z | | /ts(ɹˌ)/ | ds | z |
| 32 | | | | /ɹˌ/ | q | 1 |
| 33 | | | | /ə/ | ë / eo | 2 / ə |
| 34 | | | | /ew/ | ew | 3 / ɜ |
| 35 | | | | /ʔ(e)/ | ' | 4 |
| 36 | | | | /ŋʷ(u)/ | ngw | 5 / ㄣ |
| 37 | | | | /əw/ | ow | 6 |
| 38 | | | | /xʷ(u)/ | hw | 7 |
| 39 | | | | /ʵ/ | r[3] | 8 / δ |
| 40 | | | | /ɐj/ | ay | Y / |
| 41 | | | | /ɐw/ | aw | X / / λ |
| 42 | | | | /oj/ | oy | O / θ |
| 43 | | | | /əj/ | ey | V / |
| 44 | | | | /tsʰ(ɹˌ)/ | ts | C / ㄜ |
| 45 | | | | /nz(ɹˌ)/ | nz | H / |
Extended Sheetwem Alphabets are only for recording vocabularies from foreign languages. Extended alphabets have no Sino case.
| No. | Upper case | Lower case | Pronunciation | Latin transcription | Substitute character(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +1 | Є | є | /iw/ | iw | _iu / _iw |
| +2 | | | /uj/ | uy | U / _ui / _uy |
| +3 | | | /ej/ | ey | _ei / _ey / ス |
| +4 | | | /ow/ | ow | _ou / _ow / ㅎ |
| +5 | ↑R (like ˘) | R | /r(e)/ | rr | R / ^ |
| +6 | ʕ | ʕ (middle & lower frames) | /ˁ/ | 『 | 9 |
| +7 | Fw | fw | /ʋ(o)/ | fw | fw_ |
| +8 | | | /tʷ/ | dw | F / du_ |
| +9 | 〒 | | /tʷʰ/ | tw | tu_ |
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] [5] | /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"
Syntax
Sample
Vocab
Numbers
| 1 | Formal: Vernacular: |
2 | | 3 | | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | | 7 | | 8 | | 9 | | 10 | |
| 11 | | 12 | | 13 | | 14 | | 15 | | 16 | |
| 100 | | 256 | | 1000 | | 4096 | | 10⁴ | | 16⁴ | |
Pronouns
[ngwo] First person.
[na] Second person.
[be] Third person.
- [-eng] Plural suffix.
Nouns
Nature
[ada] Nature. Heaven. [toy] Sky. [the] Earth. [kosmos] Cosmos. [sun] Sun. [mun] Moon. [opto] Light.
Time
[sjibo] Date. [anwo] Morning. [sjiwo] Afternoon.
Marine
[baygu] Fish.
Plants
[wangku] Tree.
Eco
[dawde] earth. Soil.
Waters
[igep] Water. f [kafa] River.
Body Part
Opposition
fo [sjafo] Negative particle. Not.
Livestock
Agriculture
Sound
[ton] Voice.
Structure
Script
[kat'tjip] Alphabet. [we'nziana] A kind of ancient script for Sheetwem.
General
[wq] Belongings; things belong to sb. [dseondsq] | [dsqndsq] Existence.
Verbs
[wq'e] To have.
Transcription of foreign languages
English
See
Other
We'nziana( )