Ji'lako

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Ji'Lako (fig. Sand Tongue), also known as Ji'laka (fig. Way of the Sand) is the language spoken by the Mukasa peoples in the Salt Desert. It developed almost entirely in isolation from other languages, and thus is not mutually intelligible with anything.

Understanding the Writing System

Forthcoming.

Transliterating the Writing System

There is an alternate character set for writing Ji'lako sounds in more common glyphs; it is what is in use whenever Ji'lako crops up on this wiki.

The word-joining glyph is represented with an apostrophe ('). The Ji'lako writing system has no formal sense of capitalization, though it is stylistically recommended when transliterating to capitalize proper nouns, names, and the beginnings of sentences. Punctuation, though also not part of Ji'lako, can be employed for clarity as one sees fit.

Glyphs

The full set of glyphs, along with their transliterated counterparts, is presented here.

Pronouncing the Transliteration

These tables can be used to read transliterated Ji'lako text aloud. Simply compare each segment of text with its IPA equivalent in the table.

a

Vowels

Glyph	Transliteration	IPA
a	A/a	a
A	Ă/ă	ʌ
A	E/e	ɛ
A	Ę/ę	e
A	I/i	i
A	O/o	o
A	U/u	u

Vowel Combinations

Transliteration	IPA
AI/ai	ai
AO/ao	ao
AU/au	au
IA/ia	jɑ
IĂ/iă	jʌ
IE/ie	jɛ
IĘ/ię	je
IO/io	jo
IU/iu	ju

Consonants

Transliteration	IPA
B/b	b
Ç/ç	t͡ʃ
D/d	d
F/f	f
G/g	g
H/h	h
J/j	d͡ʑ
K/k	k
L/l	l
M/m	m
N/n	n
P/p	p
R/r	ɾ
S/s	s
SH/sh	ʃ
R/t	t
TH/th	θ
V/v	v
W/w	w
X/x	z
Z/z	ʐ

Grammar

Oh god oh no (Forthcoming)