User:Praimhín/Old Irish-Semitic inspired conlang

Séd (sayd; natively Séd-ŋó /s(ʲ)eːd(ʲ) ŋ(ʲ)oː/ 'Séd language'; in Xxánzzí /χɑːnˠzˠiː/, or Chinese characters: Séd-語) is a Sino-Xenic language spoken to the north of the Korean peninsula. It's inspired by Irish, Arabic and Farsi.

Stress: first long vowel, if no long vowel then initial

Middle Chinese -t > -r/-rr

No initial clusters

Todo

mansé? manssé? = "long live", "hurrah!"

Sino numbers: laŋ, ir, njí, ssám, ssí, ŋŋó, lúk, sir, ffér, kú, djif, djifir, djifnjí, djifssám, djifssí, djifŋŋó, ... (djifssám, djifssí often become djiffám, djiffí)

Hánkkuk = Korea

Tjúŋkkuk = China

Njirffun = Japan

Yurnnam = Vietnam

Lláŋyé = Rangya

Orthography

Sino orthography

Séd is written in a mixture of native, phonetic characters (in which each character represents one morpheme and encodes the phonetics) and Xxánzzí, or Chinese characters, for Sinoxenic loans.

Sample texts

ttúŋttaŋ or béŋttaŋ = equal

UDHR

Kkúff njínkaná fallayárr bbásjélla djíyúsjarratán ssunŋémitji ginlíxxa tjurdih ttúŋttaŋsjarrah. Njínkaná lisjaŋitji láŋsimé daxxttóbatán, ózzáhigid xéŋdéáyurr saŋzínúl haŋddúŋkadaxs djakkah.

One accent: [ku:ʍ ɳi:ɲcɛnʲæ: fʲɛɫɔja:rˠ ba:ʂə:ɫɑ ɖʐɨ:jʉ:ʂɜɾˠɑ:n sˠʊnɲe:mʲɪʈʂʊ ɟɪnʲlʲi:χ:ɔ ʈʂʊrʲdʲɪh tˠu:ŋtˠɔŋʂɜɾˠɔh]