Sirenian

Þaj (Þaj: Fāhsāh Þāj), formerly known as Sirenguarded Thai is a dialect of Standard Thai spoken in Sirenguard Autonomous District.

History

Lorewise, no one really know where it's from. The settlers and the first Þaj speakers spoke Occitan and Mosici. With most only remembering that they mysteriously started speaking Þaj on the ship from Chalmosique to Sirenguard.

Þaj used to be written with the Thai script, but later adopted Latin due to Thai script being ugly as fuck in Minecraft.

Changes from Standard Thai

Technically, Þaj is a descendant of Thai, with sound changes being the following (not in order)

Liquid deletion in consonant clusters

/l/ and /r/ disappeared after a consonant, though /w/ stayed. So กลาง /klāːŋ/ "middle" and กราง /krāːŋ/ "to rasp" merged with กาง /kāːŋ/ "to unfold", but กวาง /kwāːŋ/ remained.

Dentalization of liquids

/l/ and /r/ merged into /l̪/. So รัก /rák̚/ "to love" and ลัก /lák̚/ "to steal" merged into ลัก /l̪àk̚/.

Introduction of new codas from loanwords

/s/ and /l̪/ used to be merged with /t̚/ and /n/ respectively. But loanwords has made them appear, like in the word บาสเก็ตบอล "basketball", which can both be pronounced as /bàːt̚.kêt̚.bɔ̄n/ or /bàːs.kêt̚.bɔ̄l/

Centering of dipthongs

ia̯, ua̯, and ɯa̯ becomes iə̯, uə̯, and ɯə̯ respectively.

Labialization before rounded vowels

Consonants become labialized before u(ː).

Lenition of /kʰ/

/kʰ/ was shifted into /x/

Phonology & Orthography

Consonants	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ŋ
Plosive	p pʰ <f> b		t tʰ <þ> d		k <g>	ʔ <'>
Affricates				t͡ɕ <z> t͡ɕʰ <c>
Fricative		f <v>	s		x~ɣ <k>	h
Approximant	w			j	(w)
Lateral			l

Only bolded consonants can be a coda. With p, t, k being unreleased as /p̚/, /t̚/, /k̚/. And /k̚/ being written with a <k> instead of a <g>

Vowels	Front	Back
		Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i iː <ih>	ɯ <y> ɯː <yh>	u uː <uh>
Middle	e eː <eh>	ɤ <x> ɤː <xh>	o oː <oh>
Open	ɛ <æ> ɛː <æh>	a aː <ah>	ɔ <œ> ɔː <œh>

Vocabularies

Þaj shares most of its lexicons with Thai. With differences being that Þaj has more Nguhcraftian influences. Some words changed their meanings to fit more in-line with Sirenguarded culture.

Sirenguarded Thai	Meaning	Origin	Thai Equivalent
Āhgûhp /āː.kúːp̚/	Aguv (general)	Arodjun "Akuv"	นายพล "general"
Bēhsûhp /bēː.súːp̚/	Bezuv	Arodjun "Bezuv"	จ้าว "lord"
Ēmfājh /ēm.pʰāːj/	Empire	English "Empire"	มหาอาณาจักร "empire"
Kwīŋ /kʰwīŋ/	Quing	English "Quing"	-
lîgǎcōn /lí.kà.t͡ɕʰōn/	Kyawcenni, Foreigner	Kyawcenni "lika" + Thai "cōn"	-
œ́ŋ /ɔ̌ŋ/	I (informal)	Kyawcenni "aung"	กู "I (informal)"
sēn /sēn/	sand	Kyawcenni "cen"	ทราย "sand"
wŷtgœ̌' /wɯ́t̚.kɔ̀ʔ/	to fall from high place	Maileng "wuchiqo"	ร่วง "to fall"

Grammar

Þaj's grammar is exactly the same as that of Thai.