Tuna Sandwich

Introduction

Tuna Sandwich or Tuna Saanich is intended to parody Saanich - it is a Salish-esque language using currency symbols for letters.

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Palatal	Prevelar		Post-velar		Glottal
				central	lateral			plain	rounded	plain	rounded
Stop	plain	p		t				(k̟)	k̟ʷ	k̠	k̠ʷ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ		tʼ					k̟ʷʼ	k̠ʼ	k̠ʷʼ
Affricate	plain			ts		tʃ
	glottalized		ts̪ʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ
Fricative			s̪	s	ɬ	ʃ			x̟ʷ	x̠	x̠ʷ	h
Nasal	plain	m		n						ŋ̠
	glottalized	mʼ		nʼ						ŋ̠ʼ
Approximant	plain				l		j		w
	glottalized				lʼ		jʼ		wʼ

Orthography

• ₳ = /a/
• ฿ = /p/
• ​₫ = /t/
• ₯ = /ɮ/
• € = /i/
• ¢ = /k/
• ₵ = /q/
• ​₡ = /kʷ/
• ₲ = /qʷ/
• ​₣ = /w/
• ₰ = /f/
• ₴ = /ʔ/
• Ħ = /h/
• ₭ = /x/
• £ = /l/
• ₤ = /ɬ/
• ℳ = /m/
• ₦ = /n/
• ¤ = /ə/
• ₱ = /pʼ/
• ₧ = /r/
• $ = /s/
• ₪ = /ʃ/
• ৳ = /tʃʼ/
• ​₮ = /tɬʼ/
• ₩ = /u/
• X̱ = /χ/
• ¥ = /j/
• zł = /zʷ/