Siq'qul / Siq'qeln

LANGUAGE FAMILY: ISHADIC
# SPEAKERS / WORLD RANKING: 190K / #53
SPOKEN IN: L'ai Alaq - 100K / Qildab - 50K / Sekh Anoob - 10K / Shuri - 10K / Tifwa Akn - 10K
Siq'qul is a "higher" register of the Alawaq language used by members of the Alaq priestly caste.
PERIOD OF USE:
SCRIPT USED:
PARENT LANGUAGE:

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"...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind..."
Translation: ʻɛː şɪqqɪ məḩ ḑɔː loːs wə ʻɛː təs ḑɔː leːʻ bʊt loːb ɪh
Pronunciation: ʕɛː ˈsˤɪqqɪ məħ dˤɔː loːs wə ʕɛː təs dˤɔː leːʕ bʊt loːb ɪh

Siq'qul word order: and stood holding hat his he and turned his face wet to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: /b d dˤ f h j k l m n q r s sˤ t tˤ w x z ð ðˤ ħ ɣ ʃ ʔ ʕ ʤ θ/

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal	m			n
Stop	b			t tˤ d dˤ			k	q		ʔ
Affricate					ʤ
Fricative		f	θ ð ðˤ	s sˤ z	ʃ		x ɣ		ħ ʕ	h
Approximant						j
Trill				r
Lateral approximant				l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: /aː eː iː oː uː ɔː ə ɛː ɪ ʊ/

	Front	Central	Back
High	iː		uː
Near-high	ɪ		ʊ
High-mid	eː		oː
Mid		ə
Low-mid	ɛː		ɔː
Low	aː

Syllable structure: Custom defined
Stress pattern: Initial — stress is on the first syllable
Word initial consonants: b, d, dˤ, f, h, j, k, kh, l, m, n, q, r, s, sh, sˤ, t, tˤ, w, x, z, ð, ħ, ɣ, ʃ, ʔ, ʕ, ʤ, θ
Mid-word consonants: b, bb, d, dd, dˤ, f, h, j, jj, k, kr, l, ll, lʔ, m, mm, n, nd, nt, ntˤ, nð, q, qq, r, rb, rr, s, sˤ, t, tl, tʤ, tˤ, tˤtˤ, w, ww, x, ð, ðˤ, ħ, ɣ, ʃ, ʔ, ʕ, ʕl, ʕt, ʕtˤ, ʤ, θ
Word final consonants: N/A
Phonological changes (in order of application):

• r → s / _s
• b → pʰ / _{l,r}
• k → g / n_
• b → β / V_V
• k → g / _{w,j}

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʔ	’
θ	th
ʤ	j
x	kh
ð	dh
ʃ	sh
sˤ	ş
dˤ	ḑ
tˤ	ţ
ʕ	ʻ
ɣ	gh
ħ	ḩ
aː	ā
iː	ī
uː	ū
j	y

Grammar

Main word order: Verb Object (Prepositional phrase) Subject.
"Mary opened the door with a key" turns into Opened the door with a key Mary.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions

Nouns

Nouns have seven cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.
• Genitive is the possessor of something: dog’s tail hits man.
• Dative is the recipeint of something: man gives ball to dog.
• Locative is the location of something: man goes to town.
• Ablative is movement away from something: man walks from town.
• Instrumental is the use of something: man writes with (using) pen.

Nominative	No affix yoːḩə /ˈjoːħə/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -rdˤ Else: Suffix -ʊrdˤ yoːḩərḑ /ˈjoːħərdˤ/ (verb done to) dog
Genitive	If ends with vowel: Suffix -fl Else: Suffix -ɪfl yoːḩəfl /ˈjoːħəfl/ dogʼs
Dative	Suffix -eː yoːḩəeː /ˈjoːħəeː/ to (the/a) dog
Locative	Prefix baː- bāyoːḩə /ˈbaːjoːħə/ near/at/by (the/a) dog
Ablative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -f Else: Suffix -ɔːf yoːḩəf /ˈjoːħəf/ from (the/a) dog
Instrumental	If ends with vowel: Suffix -tˤ Else: Suffix -eːtˤ yoːḩəţ /ˈjoːħətˤ/ with/using (the/a) dog

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	No affix khɛːb /xɛːb/ man	No affix sheː /ʃeː/ woman
Plural	Prefix zʊ- zʊkhɛːb /ˈzʊxɛːb/ men	If starts with vowel: Prefix z- Else: Prefix zɪ- zɪsheː /ˈzɪʃeː/ women

Articles

Siq'qul has no definite article ‘the’, or indefinite article ‘a’.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Locative	Ablative	Instrumental
1st singular	ḑɔːl /dˤɔːl/ I	mə /mə/ me	khɔːn /xɔːn/ mine	khɛː /xɛː/ to me	ḑɔː’ /dˤɔːʔ/ at me	şɪyy /sˤɪjj/ from me	rə /rə/ with/using me
2nd singular	ə /ə/ you (masc)	khʊ /khʊ/ you	zɪkk /zɪkk/ yours	ī /iː/ to you	şɪk /sˤɪk/ at you	rɔːqh /rɔːqh/ from you	mɪm /mɪm/ with/using you
3rd singular masc	wə /wə/ he, it	khārḑ /khaːrdˤ/ him, it	ḑɔː /dˤɔː/ his, its	şɪll /sˤɪll/ to him, at it	wʊ /wʊ/ at him, at it	ţāll /tˤaːll/ from him, from it	soːll /soːll/ with/using him/it
3rd singular fem	ghī /ɣiː/ she, it	wɪ /wɪ/ her, it	gheː /ɣeː/ hers, its	ḑɛː /dˤɛː/ to her, at it	ād /aːd/ at her, at it	şɪq /sˤɪq/ from her, from it	fɔː /fɔː/ with/using her/it
1st plural inclusive	hoːl /hoːl/ we (including you)	tɪz’ /tɪzʔ/ us (including you)	zʊ /zʊ/ ours (including you)	fɛː /fɛː/ to us (including you)	bā /baː/ at us (including you)	nūr /nuːr/ from us (including you)	qāfl /qaːfl/ with/using us (including you)
1st plural exclusive	ʻə /ʕə/ we (excluding you)	loːr /loːr/ us (excluding you)	hoːb /hoːb/ ours (excluding you)	yoːn /joːn/ to us (excluding you)	soːqh /soːqh/ at us (excluding you)	ɪh /ɪh/ from us (excluding you)	ţī /tˤiː/ with/using us (excluding you)
2nd plural	dɔːsm /dɔːsm/ you all	ʊ /ʊ/ you all	’ʊ /ʔʊ/ yours (pl)	yī /ʤiː/ to you all	yoːrḑ /joːrdˤ/ at you all	tɪs /tɪs/ from you all	ghūb /ɣuːb/ with/using you all
3rd plural masc	bʊ /bʊ/ they (masc)	ʻɛː /ʕɛː/ them (masc)	sheː /ʃeː/ theirs (masc)	kūyy /kuːjj/ to them (masc)	ḑɔːw /dˤɔːw/ at them (masc)	shɔː /shɔː/ from them (masc)	şɪkk /sˤɪkk/ with/using them (masc)
3rd plural fem	leː /leː/ they (fem)	ʻɔːt /ʕɔːt/ them (fem)	ţārḑ /tˤaːrdˤ/ theirs (fem)	hoːfl /hoːfl/ to them (fem)	tə /tə/ at them (fem)	bāw /baːw/ from them (fem)	shɔːw /shɔːw/ with/using them (fem)

Possessive determiners

1st singular	khɔːn /xɔːn/ my
2nd singular	zɪkk /zɪkk/ your
3rd singular masc	ḑɔː /dˤɔː/ his
3rd singular fem	gheː /ɣeː/ her
1st plural inclusive	zʊ /zʊ/ our (including you)
1st plural exclusive	hoːb /hoːb/ our (excluding you)
2nd plural	’ʊ /ʔʊ/ your (pl)
3rd plural masc	sheː /ʃeː/ their (masc)
3rd plural fem	ţārḑ /tˤaːrdˤ/ their (fem)

Verbs

Masculine	Suffix -oː khʊḩoː /ˈkhʊħoː/
Feminine	Suffix -eː khʊḩeː /ˈkhʊħeː/

Siq'qul uses a standalone particle word for past tense:

Past	Particle before the verb: ə - ə khʊḩ /ə khʊħ/ learned

Siq'qul uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: hoːʔ - hoː’ khʊḩ /hoːʔ khʊħ/ will learn

Imperfective aspect
The ‘imperfective’ aspect refers to ongoing actions, such as I am learning and habitual actions, such as I learn (something new every day).
Siq'qul uses an affix for imperfective:

Imperfective

If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -iːd khʊḩīd /ˈkhʊħiːd/ learns/is learning

Numbers

Siq'qul has a base-20 number system:
1 - foːţ
2 - ʊ
3 - ḑɔːsm
4 - yī
5 - shəsm
6 - hɛː
7 - ʻɔː
8 - thūllī
9 - khɔːd
10 - zʊd
11 - ’ār
12 - dhārɪ
13 - ḑɛːn
14 - khāʻɪfl
15 - kūndhī
16 - kūnɪyy
17 - ɪbɪ
18 - soːll
19 - zɪthū
20 - loːmī
21 - loːmī ʻɛː foːţ “twenty and one”
400 - foːţ sheː’ “one fourhundred”
401 - foːţ sheː’ foːţ “one fourhundred one”
800 - ʊ sheː’ “two fourhundred”
8000 - foːţ hoːd “one eightthousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʔ- Else: Prefix ʔaː-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -h Else: Suffix -ɔːh
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -tˤ Else: Suffix -oːtˤ
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ll Else: Suffix -ɪll
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -ɪsm
Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -s Else: Suffix -ʊs
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -iːb
Tending to = Suffix -ʊm
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -t Else: Suffix -uːt
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -jj Else: Suffix -oːjj
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -zʔ Else: Suffix -ɛːzʔ
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -sm Else: Suffix -uːsm
Diminutive = If ends with vowel: Suffix -qh Else: Suffix -eːqh
Augmentative = Suffix -aː

Dictionary

4493 Words.