Sæn

General information
Sæn is the language of Gʍimæʎ, the island empire north of Thälâ and Relia, known on the continent as the Greemire Isles.

Alphabet
Sæn is written from left to right.

Phonotactics
Syllables can be CV, VC, or CVC. The consonants ʒ, ʎ, ɴ, and β, and clusters beginning with them, only appear after a vowel.

The following consonant clusters appear in Sæn:

Grammar
Sentence order is OSV. Nouns without a case specified are inferred from word order. Verbs without a mood specified are usually indicative. Number and definiteness of nouns are expressed by the article. Articles preceed the noun; case follows. Adjectives and adverbs fall between the noun/verb and the case/mood. Tenses are suffixes to infinitive verbs. Moods preceed verbs, or are split by them. The same pronouns are used for subject and object. The geinitive case is added as a suffix to form posessive pronouns (tʃəʎ-gäʒ for my/mine, etc.). Add -r to the end of an article before a noun that begins vowel.

Example text
ðu diβʍe̞ɴ väɹ fli yðäx zil e̞ɴ zæyb xäfl. tʃəʎ ʃæne̞ɴ väɹ uʃäl zʍe̞dl zʍil e̞ɴ gluʎ væʃl.

A Farewell to Arms

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.









Väl əðəɱ dit nu dil ʃität gäʒ yt tyβe̞ɴ ʃʍy ze̞e̞ɴ nu ʃʍy dɹəbläʒ nu dil tʃigle̞ɴ väl fli zil väl bʍe̞ndɹi ɱe̞gʍil e̞ʒ nygl ðyʒ. Väl væθ nu väl fli gäʒ uve̞ɴ gäd ydxe̞b zil gäd sləʍni säväx zil ʃätät väl uɴtät nu zil väl ðən uve̞ɴ fætyɴ zil äfiʒyɴ äʎgʍe̞ zil fæyβ väl lydʍ nu. Fæ tʃutnið be̞ɴtæɹe̞ɴ väl ze̞e̞ɴ zil väl uɴle̞t tæ zil väl xʍe̞ðe̞ɴ ʃäʎ duɹe̞ɴ ʍæʒe̞ɴ e̞ʒ unʍe̞d e̞ʒ duʃ gäʒ. Fæ ðæβ e̞ʒ duʃ gäʒ uve̞ɴ xʍe̞ðe̞ɴtʃä lud zil e̞ʒ unʍe̞d suβɱe̞ɴ dil ʃität ɹəɴtʃe̞t zil yt tʃigle̞ɴ fæ ðæβ tʃəɱge̞ʎyɴ väl uɴle̞t ɱe̞d zil väl xʍe̞ðe̞ɴ duɹyɴ zil e̞ʒ ðæβ tʃəɱge̞ʎyɴ zil väl uɴle̞t nuβyt zil ʃätät väl unʍe̞d dɹäg äfʍäd.

