i will never ever stop harping on (fictional(and also my brother) teen boys for failing their hw. its my divine right as an older sister
fully translated part of Thitur's bogus worksheet from my creative writing final from last spring semester and Also retyped it in the correct scripts and directions.
Jutal, the language spoken natively by Thitur (Θitųr) and his teacher, is written right to left. By the time he's around, its very solidly an alphabet, which comes from a much older abugida with the same ancestor script as that of the target language he's attempting to learn at school. This target language is Jěyotuy, and is written left to right in alphabetic syllable blocks (similar but not identical to how it works in Hangul. lot less combo types). While both languages share many similar letter shapes that correspond to close enough sounds, they are from Very Separate Language Families, and have little in common in terms of grammar and lexicon.
Pictured above are the Most Related letters across these systems.
Thitur has failed to include the year in his marking of the date (Iye 35- written in a base 6 number system- year 206), but he was flunking out of his required(for political reasons) basic Jěyo class ~302 years before the setting's modern day. This is riiiiight around the beginning of the decline of Jutal as a spoken language, which is done very much on purpose by incoming Jěyo folk--namely those fuckshit Mavecite folks who pour in from the south and continue to leak northward until they get their asses kicked wayyy up in the northern foothills of Ranihikk, across the Mireurǎ sea. In the modern day, Jutal is considered extremely endangered, but... it does still live on in many modern day place names, as well as the Jutal people themselves being the most likely origin for the name Jěyotuy, which is an exonym stemming from the Jěyo word <jěyodeŧ>, meaning "to chase". Not a good look for them, as compared to their endonym <Cyemiddu>, which comes from a conjugated and archaic form of the word <myid>, meaning "to speak". Of the nine recognized macrodialects of Jěyotuy, only one uses a form of the endonym in regular speech to refer to themselves and the language.
Pictured above are examples of Jěyotuy nations in the northern peninsula of the Katteșuvi continent, with the exception of Hayișura, which is the city that Thitur lived in.
Here's a refresher of what the text i turned in for class looked like!
aaaaaand here's a wordlist for all the jutal words present! I feel too tired to go back and gloss everything sorryyy:
Notice that Jutal's alphabet features not only RtL writing, but also has initial, medial, and occasionally final forms for most letters.
