Salthan Language made easy

Note: This area is under construction to improve clearity.

Introduction

Pronouncing the Sounds

Written Salthan language is made up of 13 consonants and 7 vowels. Written Salthan is a flowing script where each letter attatches with a line to the next letter in a single word. In the writting system six of the seven vowels have two forms. One is the regular from which is much like the consonents, and is used when it is at the begining of a word or directly after another vowel, and the other is when it is following the consonant.  the second form is writien so it is "attached" to the consonent it is following.  

An alternite way of writing Salthan is using roman alphabet, called "romanized Salthan" which will be used throughout this guide. Salthan language does not possess upper and lower case character as in English, however the upper case vowel is used in Romanized Salthan to show where a vowel is either in it's normal or attatched form as uppercase or lowercase respectively.

Salthan in either form is read from left to right, top to bottom.

The vowels are pronounced as follows:

The constants sounds are d, g (as in gorilla), h, k, l, n, r, s, th, ch and sh.

There are also two "click" consonants which are written in romanized Salthan as Ñ and Ç.

Ñ is made by putting the tongue at the roof of the mouth and bringing it back sharply. The Ç sound is made by putting the tongue behind the bottom of the mouth and bringing it up sharply. These click sounds can be tricky, but is not too difficult to learn.

Salthans pronouncing english

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The symbols

The following chart are the symbols for written Salthan, including both the "normal" form of verbs (The top row) and the combined form with each consonant.

Note: This chart is not yet complete and only shows consonants B to N and does not yet have the vowel Ä….

The inflective language

Salthan is a higly inflective language, meaning the words are mostly made up of a base and prefixs  and affixes to modify the word. Here is a list of common  affixes:

In most if not all cases an adjetive is used like an affix, attatched to the word it modifies. An affix always modifys the thing it is connected to at its right.

This can make even simple phrases a little complicated. In this guide the * is used to denote the place for the gender marker depending on the gender the word is refering to. For men, or unspecified it is a. for women 'i' should be used.

Common Phrases

Grammer

Word order is marked in a way that no matter which way the words arranged it means the same, by use of marking affixes.

The phrase "kololanys dauesil* chisana", which means I saw the man is the same as "kololanys chisana dauEsil*", chisana kololanys dauEsil*" or dauEsil* kololanys chisana" etc.

However, there is generaly the order of verb subject object is considered the "more correct" form.