Shidinn

Shidinn (xdi8)
Pronounced:	/sjiˈtjẽ/
Writing system:	Shidinn alphabet
Credits
Creator:	Huáng Quèfēi
Created:	ongoing since 1995

Shidinn is a constructed language invented by folk linguist Huáng Quèfēi. It is mainly based on a one-to-one correspondance of Chinese characters to Shidinn words. With 45 Shidinn letters of both phoneme and semantics, every single character is spelled using zero to multiple semantic letters (radicals) and a complete syllable (phonetic series) and read in an artificial phonology loosely based on southwestern Mandarin but not always comparable with Chinese as a sacrifice to more canonical phonotactis than Chinese. As a result, every character has a theoretical Shidinn pronunciation.

Shidinn itself is an incomplete language, because grammar is missing apart from phonology and vocabulary. Huáng devoted to developing a grammar but most of his manuscript have been lost and his subsequent Shidinn texts are but transliteration of Chinese. There are some but not all Shidinidos adapting Huáng’s Shidinn phonology to new created grammar, including Common Shidinn, ‘Standard’ Shidinn, Shidio-Zhiyuanian. Therefore the term ‘Shidinn’ commonly refers to its determined part, i.e. phonology and vocabulary, similar to the concept of absolute geometry.