Faiten

Faiten
Fae Tan Fah or 飛談話
Pronunciation	[fᴀi̯ tᴀn fᴀ]
Created by	Nathan Xu
Date	2009
Native to	Faitonia
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Faiten
Official status
Official language in	Faitonia
Regulated by	共產媈唐人民共和國政府 or Kaung Shan Fai Tang Hnin Bin Vah Gong Jieng Fu

Introduction

Faiten Language (also known as Tan Language) is a constructed language with its roots in the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is primarily spoken in the region of Faitonia and holds a community of 4 million speakers (4.5 million including in Faitonian diaspora). While Faiten initially gained popularity as a tool to circumvent government censorship on the internet, it has also evolved into a fully-fledged spoken language. Faiten's linguistic structure draws influences from mainly Chinese and in some cases Vietnamese.

Phonology

Vowel inventory

	Front		Back
Close	i	y	ɨ	u
Middle	e	ø	ə	o
Open	ɛ	œ	ᴀ	ɔ

Consonant inventory

		Labial	Dental	Velar	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal
Stop	Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	kʰ	t͡sʰ	ʈ͡ʂʰ	t͡ɕʰ
	Tenuis	p	t	k	t͡s	ʈ͡ʂ	t͡ɕ
	Voiced	b	d	g
Fricative	Tenuis	f		h	s	ʂ	ɕ
	Voiced	v			z	ʐ	ʑ
Resonant	Nasal	m	n	ŋ
	Liquid	w	l				j

Correspondences From Middle Chinese

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  Faiten Initials

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  Faiten Open Rimes

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  Faiten Nasal Rimes

NOTES:

• Labialisation of initials 幫 滂 並 明 only occur in independent rimes 嚴 元 殷 庚 凡 文 廢 微 幽 as well as Chongniu-B rimes 祭 支 脂 宵 鹽 侵 仙 真 清 as well as Closed mouth III rimes 戈 陽 蒸.
• Rimes 魚 虞 are realized as back vowels /u o/ in initials 知 徹 澄 娘 莊 初 崇 生 俟 and front /y ø/ for the rest.
• Before initials 知 徹 澄 娘 莊 初 崇 生 俟 the mixed III finals lose their palatal glide as they merge with division II.
• The initials 曉 匣 are both realized as /h/. But in closed mouth syllables they labiodentalise into /f v/ which lose their -u̯- glide.
• Before initials 端 透 定 泥 精 清 從 心 邪 they lose their palatal glide while retaining their vowels.
• In initials 知 徹 澄 娘 莊 初 崇 生 俟 the vowels /e i/ become /ə ɨ/.
• In initials 見 溪 羣 疑, Chongniu-B rimes loses it’s palatal glide while Chongniu-A rimes retains the -i- glide.