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

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/

Phonology & Orthography

Consonants	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ŋ
Plosive	p pʰ <f> b		t tʰ <þ> d		k <g>
Affricates				t͡ɕ <z> t͡ɕʰ <c>
Fricative		f <v>	s		x~ɣ <k>	h
Approximant	w			j	(w)
Lateral			l

Sirenguarded Thai's consonants inventory is very similar to Thai. With differences being Sirenguarded Thai merging <l> and <r>.

Sirenguarded Thai	Standard Thai	Meaning
lâk /lák̚/	รัก /rák̚/	to love
	ลัก /lák̚/	to steal
lòhk /lôːk̚/	โรค /rôːk̚/	earth
	โลก /lôːk̚/	disease

Sirenguarded Thai also disallows -l and -r consonant clusters, the only allowed consonant cluster being Cw.

Sirenguarded Thai	Standard Thai	Meaning
gāhŋ /kāːŋ/	กาง /kāːŋ/	to unfold
	กลาง /klāːŋ/	middle
	กราง /krāːŋ/	to rasp
gwāhŋ /kwāːŋ/	กวาง /kwāːŋ/	deer

Sirenguarded Thai vowels are identical to that of Standard Thai

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>

/h/, not being a valid coda in Thai, are instead used as a vowel length marker.

Vocabularies

Sirenguarded Thai shares most of its lexicons with Thai. With differences being that Sirenguarded Thai 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	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"
Ťwān /tà.wān/	(exclusively) Kyawcenni Sun	Thai "ตะวัน"	ตะวัน "sun"
wŷtgœ̌ /wɯ́t̚.kɔ̀/	to fall from high place	Maileng "wuchiqo"	ร่วง "to fall"