Sirenian

Sirenian
Language family	Yetchian Ŋarchipelagic[disputed]
Era	today
Writing system	Latin, previously Thai
Official status
Spoken in	Imerchal
Speaker
Demonym	Sirenian
Endonym	Sirenian
Number of speakers	idk
Technical information
Usage	Sirenguard
Language code	SRN

Sirenian (Sirenian: Fāhsáh Sajrenian), formerly known as Sirenguarded Thai and Þaj is a dialect of Standard Siamese spoken in Sirenguard Autonomous District.

History

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

Sirenian 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 Siamese

Technically, Sirenian is a descendant of Siamese, 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/ was merged with /t̚/ and /n/ respectively. But was reintroduced in loanwords, 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 /χ/

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

Sirenian vocabularies seems to suggest that the language was under Gwinic and Sanskritic influence, which doesn't line up with history of Sirenian.

Native Sirenian

Native Sirenian words are usually monosyllabic and used more often than words from other sources.

Example	IPA	Meaning
nâhm	/náːm/	water
kōn	/χōn/	person
pǎh	/pàː/	forest
múh	/mǔː/	pig
pāj	/pāj/	to go
gīn	/kīn/	to eat
háh	/hǎː/	to find
gūh	/kūː/	I (vulgar)
mȳŋ	/mɯ̄ŋ/	you (vulgar)
jǎj	/jàj/	big
lêk	/lék̚/	small

Sanskrit

Sirenian appears to have multiple Sanskrit loanwords, even though Sirenian originated nowhere near Oberia, which speaks Sanskrit.

Example	IPA	Meaning	Etymology
wîtþǎjāh	/wít̚.tʰà.jāː/	science, knowledge, -logy	विद्या (vidyā) "wisdom"
pǎtjāh	/pàt̚.jāː/	philosophy	प्रज्ञा (prajñā) "intelligence"
ǎkkǎnīh	/àk̚.χà(ʔ).nīː/	fire	अग्नि (agni) "fire"
fāhsáh	/pʰāː.sǎː/	language	भाषा (bhāṣā) "language"

Many Sanskrit Loanwords are related to religion/spirituality.

Example	IPA	Meaning	Etymology
gāhj, gāhjāh	/kāːj/, /kāː.jāː/	body	काय (kāya) "body"
zǐt	/t͡ɕìt̚/	mind, heart, soul	चित्त (citta) "mind"
sǎtþāh	/sàt̚.tʰāː/	trust, faith	श्रद्धा (śraddhā) “faith"
sǎtsǎnáh	/sàt.sà(ʔ).nǎː/	religion	शासन (śāsana) "command"
būn	/būn/	merit	पुण्य (puṇya) "good, holy"
bǎhp	/bàːp̚/	sin	पाप (pāpa) "sin"

Many Sanskrit Loanwords are related to society and politics.

Example	IPA	Meaning	Etymology
gǎsǎt	/kà(ʔ).sàt̚/	king	क्षत्रिय (kṣatriya) "ruling class"
nâkœ̄hn	/ná(ʔ),χɔ̄ːn/	city, domain	नगर (nagara) "city, town"
sáŋkōm	/sǎŋ.χōm/	society	संगम (saṃgama) "association"
pǎcāh	/pà(ʔ).t͡ɕʰaː/	people	प्रजा (prajā́) "people"
ŋǎþèht	/ŋà.tʰêt̚/	ŋation	प्रदेश (pradeśa) "ŋation"

Some word appears to be a doublet of a Sanskrit loanword. Perhaps from a language related to Sanskrit which is now extinct.

Example (Sanskrit)	Meaning	Example (Unknown)	Meaning
wîtþǎjāh	science, knowledge, -logy	wîcāh	knowledge, subject (of study)
pǎtjāh	philosophy	pānjāh	wisdom, ability
ǎkkǎnīh	fire	ǎkkīh	fire

Gwinic

Many Sirenian words appears to be of Gwinic origin. In this article we will compare it with Middle Chinese, Mandarin, and Japanese which has Gwinic loanwords but is not Gwinic. Scholars agree that Sirenians got the words from other Gwinic languages.

Example	IPA	Meaning	Language of Origin	Etymology
gàw'ìh	/kâw.îː/	chair	Unknown Gwinic	交椅 "wooden folding chair"
zêh	/t͡ɕéː/	older woman	Unknown Gwinic	姐 "elder sister"
þǔa	/tʰùə̯/	bean	Middle Chinese	豆 (dəuH) "bean"
gāhw	/kāːw/	glue	Middle Chinese	膠 (kˠau) "glue"

English

Being the interŋational language, there are many English loanwords in Sirenian. Many being Nguhcraftian terms.

Example	IPA	Meaning	Etymology
æpfyl	/ɛp̚.pʰɯl/	apple	apple
bæŋ	/baŋ/	banknote	bank
kwiŋ	/kʰwiŋ/	quing	quing
gehmmiŋ	/keːm.miŋ/	Gaming	gaming
fiklin	/pʰik̚.lin/	piglin	piglin

Occitan

Example	IPA	Meaning	Etymology
gahvæh	/kāː.fɛː/	coffee	cafè
gahveh	/kāː.feː/	cafè
gonsul	/kon.sul/	consul	cònsol

Grammar

Sirenian's grammar is exactly the same as that of Siamese.