Sutaqlian language

Sutaqlian
TBD
Region	Sutaqlia
Ethnicity	Sutaqlian
Native speakers	~22 million (2022)
Language family	Pan-Anqirhan
Early forms	Pre-Anqirhan Classical Anqirhan Vernacular Anqirhan Sutaqlian
Official status
Official language in	Sutaqlia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sq
ISO 639-2	stq
ISO 639-3	stq

Sutaqlian is the official language of Sutaqlia.

Phonology

Sutaqlian has a basic five vowel inventory: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/. The only legal diphthongs are /ay/ and /oy/, with Anqirhan /aw/ having shifted to /o/. The vowels /e/ and /o/ predominantly arose from the Anqirhan rimes /iʁ/ and /uʁ/ respectively, and are still written as such in the Sutaqlian syllabary.

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Fortis stop	p	t	tʃ	k	q
Lenis stop	b	d	dʒ	g	ɢ
Sibilant fricative		s	ʃ			h
Non-sibilant fricative	v̊	ɬ	ç		χ
Approximant	ʋ	l	j		ʁ

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Fortis stop	p	t	c	k	q
Lenis stop	b	d	j	g	gh
Sibilant fricative		s	sh			h
Non-sibilant fricative	vh	lh	yh		rh
Approximant	v	l	y		r

Orthography

The Sutaqlian syllabary

Grammar

The following section contains ideas for the Sutaqlian language that may or may not make the final cut.

Nouns

Classes

• Humans
• Land animals
• Sea animals
• Plants and fungi
• Life-like forces of nature (e.g. rivers, weather, fire)
• Solid objects
• Flexible objects (e.g. fabrics, paper)
• Stretchy objects
• Thin, long objects (e.g. ropes)
• Edible objects
• Liquids
• Abstract objects