Sïsang

Allophones
[j] - /i/ acting as a syllable onset

[ɥ] - /y/ acting as a syllable onset

[ɰ] - /ɯ/ acting as a syllable onset

[w] - /u/ acting as a syllable onset

These are the allophones of consonants that are changed by a following /i/ or /y/:

/n̥/ - [ɲ̊]

/n/ - [ɲ]

/t/ - [c]

/d/ - [ɟ]

/s/ - [ç]

/z/ - [ʝ]

/ts/ - [cç]

/dz/ - [ɟʝ]

Phonotactics
CV(V), where C can be any consonant or one of the onset-vowels that become approximants. Not counting the onset-vowel, if there is one, no two identical vowels can be next to each other in a syllable.

Tone
There are three contour tones, a rising tone, a falling tone, and a flat tone.

Writing System
The writing system is a featural abugida.

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Not mentioned in this image: when a vowel has no consonant coming before it, it attaches to a horizontal line, the null character.

Morphosyntax
There are two types of word in Sisaɑ: the subject noun, and the predicate. They are formed as follows:

Subject: Describe the agent by a set of adjectives. Choose the adjectives based on how specifically you need to describe the agent. Cut superfluous adjectives if possible. Any case, mood, number, or any other kind of grammatical modifier is treated as an adjective, just as necessary as any other. Agent nouns do not have roots.

Predicate: Unlike a subject, predicates do have roots. The root of a predicate is either a predicate adjective or a verb, although verbs are more rare. The predicate is head initial, so all adverbs and grammatical markers (tense, number, &c) are suffixed.

Note on modifiers: if two modifiers to a word are inseparable for some reason, such as 'sickly sweet', they are connected by the word for 'and', which is [xa˩˥].

In a sentence that another language would interpret as being transitive, such as "Jim eats an orange", Sisaɑ would restructure it to be intransitive, usually in a way that resembles passive voice: "Orange movedIntoJim"

The word order is Subject-predicate.

Lexicon
The lexicon is composed of a relatively small number of mono-morphemic, monosyllabic words which can be agglutinated to form larger ones. Much of the lexicon is adapted from Mandarin Chinese.

Numbers (base-6):
number: [çiu˥˩]

0: [diɑ˩˥]

1: [ji]

2: [ɰɯ˥˩]

3: [sa]

4: [çi˥˩]

5: [wu˩˥]

10: [ji.diɑ˩˥]

11: [ji.diɑ˩˥.ji]

100: [ji.diɑ˩˥.diɑ˩˥]

Colors:
Color: [sa˥˩]

Red: [xɒɑ˩˥]

Green: [dy˥˩]

Blue: [da˩˥]

White, bright, shining: [bai˩˥]

Black, dark, dim: [xai]