Giszat

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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