Giszat
From Series Bible
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 |
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mu | mʌ, β̃ | |
i | i, ɪ | |
e | ø | |
a | ɑ, ɔ | |
g | g, ɣ | |
t | t | |
z | z | |
sz | z: | |
n | n, ɲ |