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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

The writing system is a Reverse Abugida; each letter is composed of a left (optional) and right half, the left representing a consonant prefix and the right representing either a vowel or vowel combination sound. The letters themselves are read vertically, top to bottom, left to right. Columns of text have a contiguous vertical line running through them, even where whitespace would be. The only punctuation is a short horizontal dash, used to join words together into grammatical combinations.

Example Text

Sa'fao'je

I'sa'miukai ra sana

Rai'kă'pę

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 dash 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 and pronunciation, is presented here.

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

Vowel Combinations
Glyph	Transliteration	IPA
1	AI/ai	ai
2	AO/ao	ao
3	AU/au	au
5	IA/ia	jɑ
6	IĂ/iă	jʌ
7	IE/ie	jɛ
8	IĘ/ię	je
9	IO/io	jo
0	IU/iu	ju

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

Grammar

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