Tuna Saanich
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Introduction
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 | |||||||
| Nasal | ₥ /m/ | ₦ /n/ | ||||||||||
| Stop | plain | ฿ /p~b/ | ₫ /t~d/ | ₵ /k̟ʷ/ | ₭ /k̠/ | ₲ /k̠ʷ/ | ₴ /ʔ/ | |||||
| ejective | ₱ /pʼ/ | ₡ /k̟ʷʼ/ | Ҝ /k̠ʼ/ | Ғ /k̠ʷʼ/ | ||||||||
| Affricate | plain | ₯ /ts/ | ¢ /tʃ/ | |||||||||
| glottalized | ₧ /tsʼ/ | ₮ /tɬʼ/ | ৳/ tʃʼ/ | |||||||||
| Fricative | ₰ /f/ | $ /s̪/ | zł /zʷ/ | ₤ /ɬ/ | ₪ /ʃ/ | X̱ /x̠/ | Ħ /h/ | |||||
| Approximant | ₨ /r/ | £ /l/ | ¥ /j/ | ₩ /w/ | ||||||||
Vowels
Orthography
- ₳ = /a/
- ฿ = /p/
- ₫ = /t/
- ₯ = /ts/
- € = /i/
- ¢ = /tʃ/
- ₵ = /q/
- ₡ = /kʷ/
- ₲ = /qʷ/
- ₣ = /w/
- ₰ = /f/
- ₴ = /ʔ/
- Ħ = /h/
- ₭ = /x/
- £ = /l/
- ₤ = /ɬ/
- ℳ = /m/
- ₦ = /n/
- ¤ = /ə/
- ₱ = /pʼ/
- ₧ = /r/
- $ = /s̪/
- ₪ = /ʃ/
- ৳ = /tʃʼ/
- ₮ = /tɬʼ/
- Ʉ = /u/
- ₩ = /w/
- X̱ = /χ/
- ¥ = /j/
- zł = /χʷ/