Giszat

A minor language that makes at most a minor appearance in the storyworld of Kingdoms and Thorn. The language of the Giszat people. One of Skylight's covers in Five Times with Tea and One Without is as a member of this people.

Starting Vocabulary

Term	IPA	Root
muentig	β̃øɲ.'tiɪ̯ɣ	muentig
muntigzat	mʌn.tɪg.'zɑ	muentig
muatog	β̃ɔ.'to	muat
Giszat	ɣiz.'z̥ɑ	ghizs

Sound Change Rules

• prevocalic 'mu' lenits to a nasalized bilabial approximant or fricative and rounds the following vowel
• word final stops following a high vowel were lenited to fricatives
• word final stops were elided

Original Phoneme	Modern Grapheme	Modern Allophones
	mu	mʌ, β̃
	i	i, ɪ
	e	ø
	a	ɑ, ɔ
	g	g, ɣ
	t	t
	z	z
	sz	z:
	n	n, ɲ