XENOLINGUIST
The Xi'an speak in pitch. Feed in a human name and the rules engine renders it in Standard Romanized Xi'an (SRX) — spelling, pitch contour, and a pronunciation hint you can actually say.
HOW IT READS
Pitch is punctuation in SRX: an interstitial . is LOW, ' is FALLING, and a trailing " is HIGH. Vowel length matters — doubled vowels and macrons lengthen.
GET STARTED
The Xi'an care about role over family name— a pilot is addressed as “Pilot To'nii”. Add your role on the next page to see it.
FIELD NOTES — THE XI'AN
They play the long game
The Xi'an live for centuries — Emperor Kr.ē has reigned since before the 259-year Cold War with humanity. Patient, hierarchical, and strategic, they prize restraint; cross one and it doesn't get angry, it gets "curt, succinct, and intractable."
Pitch is meaning
uo'aXy'an is a tonal language — pitch carries meaning. SRX (Standard Romanized Xi'an) repurposes punctuation as pitch marks because earlier human spellings kept losing the pitch and mangling the word.
Role over family name
A Xi'an doesn't care about your surname unless you're famous. You're "Pilot Harry" or "Teacher Mary" — your societal role matters far more, and a Xi'an will ask for it if you don't volunteer it.
The Service Dialect bridges the gap
Proper Xi'an lacks many human sounds, but nearly every Xi'an also speaks the Service Dialect, which supplies most of them. That's what makes adapting a human name possible at all — though clusters like "squirrel" still defeat it.