Siangwaanian glossary

This is a list of terms in the Siangwaanian language, the national language of the republic of Siangwaan.

A[]

Several words in Siangwaanian.
ai sa - happy
ài - life
āk - ingot, scrap
a-loʟ-hon - (S) arhat
ā-rauʟ-koz - (V) araukoz gryphon, nuisance, joke

Aa[]

āau - to have
aauʟ zīk - favourite

B[]

ba - a spear, a pike
bá - (archaic) ten thousand; (nowadays) a group of 10,000 members or parts
bá kei - a metropolis, a city of 10,000 people
- Not all bá kei cities in Siangwaan literally have 10,000 people and above.
baiʟ - (CD) defeat, failure, loss, ruin
bán - board, plank, beam
bān ngōn - good evening
bāt - (CD) eight
bāat - no, not
baa - jousting lance
bāat-yan-kēi-gen - nobody cares
- (a derisive slogan towards news reporters for being busybodies)
béik - (CD) to evade, to dodge, to avoid
bēn douʟ - where
bēn gó - who
biá - a period of 10,000 years
bōk - north

Ch[]

chàm yatʟ - yesterday
cháo ngōn - good morning (after 6 am or sunrise)
chāt - (CD) seven
cha giēn - goodbye
chatʟ - to grant, to confer, to bless
chaanggìm - to take part in a contest, to attend
chaangìm dáang - a contestant, a player
chaau ngen - equality
chengʟ chengʟ - excuse me
chéun - foolish
cheungʟ, chaangʟ - jousting pauldron
chīzongʟ - torrent, sweeping current, strong flow of water
chiʟ mouʟ - (CD) old age, later sunset, closer to death
chiè - relaxed, free
chiè lok - freedom
chin - (CD) cent, a coin
chō chí hwa - (CD) initialising
chói - racing, a race
chōng maanʟ, kiòng chōng - (CD) atmosphere
Chōng Tiēn - (CD) Heaven, the gods; (poetic) the sky, azure sky; (monotheism) God
Chōng Tiēn Mōn Suòi - (CD) Praise Heaven/Thank Heaven/Long Live Heaven, it is very good, I'm in luck
Chōng Tiēn yí séi; Hwòng Tiēn dōng laapʟ/ChTYI;HTDL - (CD, sl) the Azure Sky is dead, the Yellow Sky is set up; hip hip hurrah; I did it for the lulz; YOLO
- Often shortened to Chōng séi Hwòng laapʟ (ChSHL)
chóng - village

D[]

dá - one
dálōk - independent, sovereign
daʟ-kiāo nuè - unicorn, horse with one horn
dazitʟ - to prevail, to triumph, to win
dak - end, final
dap - hill
dapʟ - mace, club
dā - father
dāi - great
Dāi giēt dāi lei, giām ōm(séw) sekʟ giēp - (CD, sl) Lucky for you, we'll eat chicken tonight; all or nothing; I've won
daiʟ - or
daiʟ - ceremony
dáihoʟ (CD, 带祜, now archaic) - greetings, "bring blessing"
- Replaced by "ket sho do naa", which uses the corresponding dialectal words.
Dan Cheun - Start of Spring, New Year
dāng - parent
dào - branch
daa - very much
dáa - order, divine order, plan of the gods
Dáalàu - Wheel of Dharma, Dharmachakra, symbol of Buddhism
dáai - to bring
dàai - to learn (a skill)
dàai mé - to train (usually to fight)
daaiʟ dī - (CD) other people
dáang - a contestant, a doer
dek ziapʟ - to whack road signs, unruly, frustration
dēng - metal
dēng - lantern
dí - what
diè bán - elimination
dikʟyán - enemy
dím - how
dím gáai - why
dím shaakʟ - how much
dīm - steel
dō - many, a lot
doʟ - eclipse, horror, shadow, gap, void, grasp, death
dói - may there be
doiʟ - but
Doiʟzaau - (CD) Daizhou
- Daizhou's name was intentionally mispronounced to show that Siangwaan is no longer the same as its motherland. In older times, pronouncing Daizhou's name correctly would lead to accusations of treason against Siangwaan.
dok saau - solitaire
dók - (CD) large town
dók dài - dictatorship, autocracy
dōk - skull
dōng - east
dú - five
dú - ancient
duʟ - to obstruct, to block
duā - man, person
duoʟ - to drag

E[]

ei - yellow
ei niè - this
ei yatʟ - today

G[]

gā - family
gaʟ - eight
gái - true, correct
gái shi - (CD) when
gāi - chicken, rooster
gāk leiʟ - next
gào - powerful, mighty
gào gāng - aspiration
gaai - world
gáan po waiʟ - almost damaged, dilapidated
géi - (CD) willow
giem hiapʟ, gēmhioʟ - (CD) a swordsman, a wandering hero
gèndō - more than
gènsiū - less than
geuiʟ - last, remaining
giáo - (CD) nine
giā yau - (CD) come on!
giēp zō - chicken meat
giēu - to refer someone as, to call someone as
gié - well-being
ging - well, cistern
ging - fit, muscular, handsome/beautiful
gong góng - maternal grandfather
gōuméng - help

Gw[]

gwán - lance, pole
gwanʟ - to snatch
gwanʟ kiào - abduction
gwanʟ le - robbing, robbery
gwep zō - pork
gwo - (CD) to approach a god or someone holy, (formal) to visit
... gwo - already did ...
gwok - (CD) country

H[]

... há - still doing
hán ngōn - good afternoon
hangʟ - to hide
hangʟ - to build, to set up, to assemble
hangʟ, hiangʟ - to go
hangʟ gāi - (CD) strolling, shopping, to go buy things, to wander around at a shopping mall
hangʟ güʟ - a small machine, a small robot
hèyóng - to hope, to wish for
héi - wake up
heng - like, resembling
hèw - arch
hēung - (CD) countryside
hēungzé - (CD) rural
Hiām Ka - City of the Sky, Heaven, City of the Gods
hià - down
hiàzáo - escape
hiaangʟ, kwaangʟ, luaangʟ - freezing cold
hie máai - torment, agony
hiēk - blade
hiēn - great joy
hin - orange
hīng - to return, to come back
hīng gié - rehabilitation, recovery
hiok - pyre
hiōm, hiām - sky
hiōm lé - All Under Heaven, the whole country, (our) Siangwaan
hiōng - hope
hiōng - (CD) horrible, inauspicious, dangerous
hiónaaʟ - changing, unstable
hó - sad
hoi - sea
... hōi - usually does
hōi pā - scared, to be afraid
hokʟ - darkness, shadow, dim
homʟ - swamp
Hong Chi - (CD) Confucius, a cruel person
hong̀ chàa - red tea
hongʟ - from
hongʟ - inner darkness, agony
hóu wanʟ - (CD) good luck
hòu - sorrow, agony, dread
huà liong - angry
hüʟ - deep darkness, abyss
hǖt - snow
hǜt - weakness
hütʟ, shütʟ - blood

I[]

iʟ - child

K[]

kà - city
kang deuʟ - homework
káo - character
kào - roast
karʟkì, kaʟrikì - (V) spinel
ket shō doʟ naa - greetings, nice to meet you
kiāo - horn
kiew ... - (future tense), will ...
kīn - (CD) gold (substance)
kó - fire
koʟ - scratch, a letter
kóng - dark metal
kúi - he/she/it

Kw[]

kwaai - fragment, piece, chip

L[]

lam bà - fire, shoot
lao kang - self-sufficiency
láng - pale light, moonlight
lā - three
laʟ bā - older brother
laʟ néi - older sister
láo zō - beef
lào - cold
lapʟ wai - (CD) orderly domination, authoritarianism, tyranny
làu - wheel
láa - draw
laauʟ - a round of a game or sport, a turn, a phase, a session, a match
lé - (native) down, base, lower
lék - primitive, bottom, low-minded, vulgar
lei - purple
léi - to rise
léng - (CD) hill
lengʟ - (CD) zero
letʟ - net
Leun Yu - (CD) The Analects of Hong Chi, oppressive literature, instrument of oppression
leung - mother
leungʟ paangʟ - (CD) friend
lí bā - older sister
lí néi - younger sister
liáng - sun
liè - defeat
liekʟtám - machine
lién, liéng - god, deity
likʟshí - (CD) history
lingʟyǘ - (CD) imprisonment, jail
līng - to visit, to approach
lip - cricket
ló - very much
lokʟ - (CD) six
lotʟ, luoʟ - root
lóu - water
louʟ - (CD) skull
lúlapʟ - pipe
luté - dangerous
lū - nine
luan - name
luén - medium
lúi - surely
lúi - to steal
lúi le - stealing
... lúi māi - ... or not?
luk - ice
lūndaakʟ - to plunder
lút, sói, tuok, sunʟ - year (cycle)

M[]

maʟ maʟ - maternal grandfather
mái - rice
mán niè - that
mán nienʟ - (CD) final years, sad time, closer to death
māng - to visit
mangʟ - scared
maanʟ - moon
maanʟ - sea
máao dēk - compulsory, (slang) test, examination
... māat yeʟ - (CD) what
Méi-chaaʟ-liēng - (K) Ten Thousand Blessings, derived from a patriotic Kjongkjong name for Siangwaan, "Mengcha-baljeng".
- It also sounds like the Siangwaanian words for "valiant beauty".
... meiʟ ... - has someone ... or not
miào - magic
miet - (CD) destruction
minbén - allow, permit, consent
míng sāan - welcome
mingʟ bak - (CD) purpose
mióu - blossom, flower
mít - (T) honey
mo-sen shin-gan - (CD) wireless news, national news broadcasting service
mó - I
mómē - my
mómē wanʟchiʟ - I am sorry
mōt - on, at a place
móyā - we
mō - red
mok - goods
mōn suòi, muon suòi - ten thousand ages, long live
móng gauʟ - defiant
mongʟ - (CD) to wish for, to yearn for
-mouʟ - not done, cannot
... mouʟ ... - does someone ... or not
muā - change, to become, to turn into
muā shengʟ - becoming, transformation
mún - door
muon cheui - (CD) a great army of tanks
muon pang - (CD) everywhere, all over
muon sei - (CD) may you die ten thousand times, death to ...

N[]

ná - one (in compounds)
namʟ - south
naa - thou, you
naa lúi bēn go - who are you
naamē - thy, your
Naamo Omeitophot - (CD, S) Namo Amitabha ("Hail to You, Amitabha", 南無阿彌陀佛), a prayer of blessing and peace
naayā - you
nàai - to die, death
naaiʟ - death, moribund, ruined, morbid, sad
nièt - year (twelve months)
nien - (CD) year
ník - child
níng - two (in compounds)
Nioʟ Giā - (CD) Ruism, the teachings of Hong Chi; authoritarianism
- In older times, Siangwaan reviled Ruism as the cause of its homeland's backwardsness, and therefore condemned it as an "oppressive ideology".
nót, niót - festival, rite
nóm - brown
nou - through
nū la - (V) bread
nuè - horse
nuè chēung, má chēung - (CD) horse-spear, jousting
nuè chēung dáang, chēung dáang - (CD) a jouster
nuè chói, wói - horse race
nuè chói dáang, wói dáang - (CD) a horse racer
nuè dáang - a horse rider
nuè gwán - jousting
nuè gwán dáang - (CD) a jouster
nút, tòk - to stop

Ng[]

ngāi - love
... ngaa - (interrogative)
ngok - country
ngōn - peace
ngōnzá - mediator, counselor, peacemaker, hero, one who stops a disaster

O[]

ō - two
ōm(séw) - night
ong - good
ong yǖn - good luck
ongʟ - (CD) five

P[]

pan - flat
pāng - wind
Phaat - the Dharma, the law of Buddhism
pé - pink
Phot, Phot da - (S) Buddha
Phot Giào - Buddhism
phu saat - (S) bodhisattva
po pó - maternal grandmother
pō waiʟ - (CD) damaged, broken, vandalised, run-down
poi - (CD, 匪) - bandit, terrorist, raider
pōikan - apple
pōt - porcelain
puái - swiftness, agility, sharpness of mind; swift, sharp-minded, agile

R[]

rasià - (V) awakening, awareness, renaissance

S[]

sa - green
saʟ - and
sam - (CD) new, updated, recent, later era
sam nien - (CD) new year
sān - silver
saa - day
sāa - joy, happiness
sāam - (CD) three
sáap - write
saatʟ - to kill
saa-saa kēi-gen - always cares
sé - daylight
séi - (CD) four
séi shing daai - (CD, Buddhism) Four Noble Truths
séi - (CD, stronger) to die (especially via a cruel/horrific means), cruel death
sèi - west
sekʟ - to eat
Siāng Waanʟ - "facing the bay", the nation of Siangwaan.
- Siāng Waanʟ, giā yau! - Come on, Siangwaan! (used in sports matches)
sīm - sunbeam, ray
siek - (CD) to mourn, to lament
siék - (CD, elegant) write
siū - less
sói - year, stage
sói - fry
sói gep - fried egg
són - black
sóng - trove
sún - conduit, nexus, centre, axis, pillar
süʟ - frost

Sh[]

sha - star
shái - yes
shān - mountain
shāng - magpie
shapʟ - (CD) ten
shàa - to charge
Shāam Mokʟ (森目, CD) - "Eyes of the Forest", Siangwaanian jungle snipers
shàan - (CD) deity, god, higher god
shàan yiʟ - (CD) gods and spirits, the supernatural
sháang - province
shāau - to burn
shaauʟ dikʟ - (CD) great enemy
shēngsaan - (CD) believe
shengʟ - morning
shengʟ - (CD) change
shengʟ da - (CD) to become
shengʟ ngōn - good morning (before 6 am or sunrise)
shèwk - scorching hot
Shēung Yēung (zaai/gwaai) - a very strict person; a tyrant; a heartless, soulless person
sheungʟ - up
shiʟ - to begin, to start
shiʟwaaiʟ - (CD) bodyguards, retinue, elite guards or troops
shó - six
shong - smooth
shuʟ - one hundred
Shuʟ Koʟ - Hundred Scratches, a phonetic alphabet used to pronounce Siangwaanian and local languages.
shúi - rain
shǖ banʟ - (CD) literary
shütʟshāa - bloodshed, horrific violence

T[]

taché - to set free, to liberate
tamʟ - to stand
tang - people
tang daa - fairness
tang lok - unity
tang yok - fairness
tang zo - republic, democracy
tāng zó - thank you (for help)
tát - field
tāa - against
tek - seven
tēn, tīn, tiēn - (CD) sky, Heaven
tēng - problem
tēng yàng - incident
tēng yatʟ - tomorrow
tià - knowledge
tiamʟ - war, conflict, battle
tie naa - determination
Tiēn Hià - (CD) All Under Heaven, the world, other countries, Daizhouvian or Siangwaanian monarchy, our land
tīng - gold
to dā - grandfather
to leung - grandmother
tó - elder
tói - to see
tói naa lēi - see you again, may we meet again
tōk - tree
tokʟzí - map
tòk - to halt, to impede, "stop" (in road signs)
tòng bouʟ hwa - (CD) synchronising
tou - they
tūn món - speech, dialogue
tuō - rice farm
tuò - any farm
tuò tát - farm field, farmland

W[]

wai - for
wai lái - thank you (for something)
wài - out
waaiʟ - bad
waan weng - awareness
wanʟ - blue
wē - odd, strange, alien
wēyan - an alien
wéi - zero
Wong Sheungʟ - (CD) Your Majesty, Emperor
wongʟ - (CD) wight
wongʟpo - (CD) madam wight
wongʟye - (CD) sir wight
wuk - (good) luck, fortune

Y[]

yā - (plural)
yā zangʟ - riot, mob
yam yeung - yin-yang, harmony
yám - to drink
yamʟwēn - dynamic, unstable
yan - person
... yānbienʟ, ... yānyütʟ, ... héiyeukʟ - (CD) May you have a happy ...
- Dálōk Zit Héiyeukʟ! - Happy Independence Day!
- Pu-rul-li Yānyütʟ! - Happy Purulli/Happy New Year!
- Zom-yo-nor-se Dansheng Yānyütʟ!/Zom Zit Yānyütʟ! - Happy Zomjonor's Birthday!
yàng - matter, subject
yangʟ - wish; to wish for, to yearn for
yāt - (CD) one
yāt - night
yāt ngōn - good night
yáu - friend
yaubôro - (V) gryphon
yáan - twenty
yàaudong(ze), yàaudo - (CD) bandit, robber
-ye - (genitive), something's
ye yé - paternal grandfather
yén shā - violin
yenʟ - protest, to object
yè - four
yèw - cat
yeʟ - (CD) two
yepʟ zō - fish meat
yèw, yièw - to want
yèuk - right
yíng - daughter
yít - hot
yocháu - mourning, grief, sorrow
yó - favourable, good
yok - white
yóm - to align, to adjust
yón - chaos, horror
yónggaai - (CD, sl) world of courage, noblebright
yòng - pink hair, wisteria, Ontemazei
yongʟ - choice, option
yóu - (CD) to pester, to disturb, to irritate, irritating
yú - chaos, turmoil, disorder
yǜ - (CD) remaining amount, final years, ending
yüʟ - heal
yüen - round, a unit of currency, dollar, credit
yüén - primordial order, divine order
yük - (CD, sl) jade
yǖt - small

Z[]

zái - son
zài - bigger incident, disaster
zák - termination, death
zakʟ - (CD) swamp
zàm - silkworm
zamʟ - shatter, break down
zān (haiʟ) - surely
zanʟ ché - please
zang da - justice
záo - (CD, sl) Let's go!
zāau - nation, land
zaauʟ - to destroy
zaauʟdaʟ - destruction, ruin, devastation
zengʟ - (CD) clean, tidy
zéung - (CD) battle
zi - (CD) knowledge
ziʟ yàau - (CD) liberty
zí - to stop
zíyaoʟ - only, just
ziā - woman
ziapʟ - sign, road sign
zīm - steel
zín - (CD) war
zínsheng - (CD) conquer
zīng - neighbourhood, district
ziok - region
zit - (CD) festival
zo - country
zó - have done
zō - meat
zōi - in
zòk - ten
zòk shó - sixteen
zong, ngōng - (CD) foolish, stupid
zōng - centre
zóu nienʟ - (CD) early years, youth
zù zaak - torture
zun - discord, disorder
zütʟgaai - (CD) world of ruin, grimdark
zütʟmongʟ - (CD) despair

Trivia[]

The author based Siangwaanian on his native language, Cantonese. The addition of sh and the distinction between eu and ew were from his dissatisfaction with how the language has changed.
- Over thousands of years of separation from its Daizhouvian motherland, the Siangwaans' language has changed as its words were replaced by dialectal terms. Eventually these terms became a vocabulary that was so different from the original that (aside from a portion of classical terms) Siangwaanian was no longer mutually intelligible with any modern Daizhouvian dialect, becoming a separate language.
- At one point in Siangwaan's history, its people and government used dialectal terms to "purify" their language, removing Daizhouvian terms to make themselves more "independent".
- Siangwaanians used Classical Daizhouvian as a literary language, even when they were fighting against their former homeland. They also use Sarmelonid, Gauvajut, and (in lesser cases) pure Siangwaanian and Old Ardeschen as literary languages.
- When praying to their gods, they mostly speak in their own languages with Classical Daizhouvian terms (like séi shing daai and phu saat, "Four Noble Truths" and "bodhisattva"), or they would chant mantras in Josolchir or Gauvajut, depending on which god are they praying to. For example, when praying to Amitabha Buddha, they use Daizhouvian, and when they ask Tarhunz to protect them they recite Gauvajut prayers.

Pronunciation:[]

aa - [ɐ]
b - [p]
bp - [b], also spelled as b
ch - [t͡sʰ~t͡ɕʰ]
d - [t]
dt - [d], also spelled as d
eu - [ø]
ew - [eu] (e-u becomes this)
g - [k]
gk - [g], also spelled as g
k - [kʰ], [-k]
ng - [ŋ]
p - [pʰ], [-p]
ph - [ɸ~pʰ] in religious terms. Spelled as ф.
sh - [ɕ]
t - [tʰ], [-t]
y - [j]
z - [t͡s]; [z], [-s] in Vozonid loanwords
a - middle tone
á - rising tone
ā - high tone, long vowel in foreign languages
à - falling tone
aʟ - low tone

Other marks:
- (CD) - Classical Daizhouvian word
- (S) - Sanskrit loanword
- (T) - Tuksharan loanword
- (V) - Vozonid loanword
- (K) - Kjongkjong loanword
- (sl) - slang