Sinfosiloni
Sinfosiloni, from Psikai meaning "word of siloni", is a creole language developed in Siloni with words from the many tongues of the traders passing through the city. The grammar is based on Psikai, but simplified.
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
In the evolution from Old Psikai, tonal distinctions were lost to length--high vowels became long, low became short.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
| Plosive | p, b | t, d | k, g | ʔ | |
| Fricative | f, v | s, z | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | (ŋ) | |
| Approximate | w | l, ɾ | j |
| front | central | back | |
| closed | i, ii | u, uu | |
| mid | e, ee | o, oo | |
| open | æ | a, aa | ɔ |
Morphology
Sinfosiloni is a noun-marking language, placing at the end of all of its nouns. Without the -i, the word becomes an adjective of the same meaning. Originally, the suffix -i was used to denote nouns from adjectives. As new nouns were adopted into Sinfosiloni, the morpheme became used to clarify the word's borrowing as a noun. This trend continued until the suffix attached to all nouns, creating the noun-marking system.
Root Languages
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