Just like Mastodon, I will start worldbuilding as part of a way to increase engagement with my social media sites. In the case of Bluesky, I will make use of this method.
Basics And Sounds
Kiyagi is a SVO agglutinative language, with the main inspirations being Pashto, Virgin Islands Creole, and Paicî–in that order.
As it turned out, the Kiyagi language does not have any affricatives.
| Dental/Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||||
| Labial | Prenasalized | Post-Velarized | Post-Palatalized | Prenasalized | Post-Velarized | Prenasalized | Post-Velarized | Glottal | |
| Nasal | m | n | nʲ | ||||||
| Plosive | b, p | ⁿ̠d̠ | d, t | ᶮɟ | j | ᵑɡ | g | ||
| Thrill | r, rr | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | x | h | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | y | ||||||
Just like Pashto, I kept the vowel system simple.
| Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a | ɑ |
Plants
| Animal | dzef |
| Bird | iyash |
| Dog | lo |
| Fish | kyai |
| Louse | onak |
| Snake | koshedz |
| Worm | batsad |
Animals
| bark (of a tree) | al |
| flower | wendsa |
| forest | adaf |
| fruit | ngoho |
| grass | ak |
| leaf | yirra |
| root | dzeh |
| rope | uts |
| seed | rtim |
| stick | fez |
| tree | nʲef |
Expanded Reading
- Bannersglare, Robert-Scott. “Kiyagi Expanded Reading.”