Old Sirrese

Old Sirrese
銀人話 (sirratōdata)
Pronunciation	[sir.ra.toː.da.ta]
Created by	Melinoë
Date	June 13th, 2026
Native to	Manchurian Plain
Era	Spoken until the early 10th century, became Middle Sirrese.
Language family	Indo-European Para-Germanic Chlesamnic Old Sirrese
Early forms	Proto-Chlesamnic Old Sirrese
Writing systems	Han Old Uyghur
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sirr-pro

Old Sirrese (Also Classical Sirresic; 銀人話 (sirratōdata), /sir.ra.toː.da.ta/) was a Chlesamnic language spoken in the Manchurian plains until the early 10th century, when it became Middle Sirrese. Old Sirrese was mainly written in Chinese characters, but saw some use of the Old Uyghur script, as well as the Mongolian script late in its life.

Old Sirrese is of great interest to Chlesamnic linguists, as it is seemingly rather conservative in many aspects, compare reconstructed Proto-Chlesamnic *wánhas/*wánham to Old Sirrese *wanna, Ancient Tevvic vagga, Old Thadic wěnxę̌, and Old Low Polovic vǫžǫ.

Phonology

Consonants

		labial	alveolar	palatal	velar
nasal		m	n	ɲ	(ŋ)
plosive	unvoiced	p	t	c	k
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
fricative	unvoiced		s	ʃ	h
	voiced		z	ʒ
affricate	unvoiced		t͡s	t͡ʃ
	voiced		d͡z	d͡ʒ
approximant		w	r, l	j

Vowels

	front		back
	short	long	short	long
high	i	iː	u	uː
mid	e	eː	o	oː
low	a	aː