Mosici

Mosici  
Language family	Nyelavi
Early form(s)	Imperial Nyelavi, Old Mosici
Writing system	Nahan Script
Official status
Spoken in	Imerchal
Regulated by	Imerchali Department of Language and Culture
Speaker
Demonym	Mosici-speaking
Technical information
Usage	Native Language, Administrative Language
Language code	MSC

Mosici, sometimes also spelled Mosécee (Mosici:   [ãmosicic eʟa]) is a Nyelavi language spoken in Imerchal.

Phonology

Mosici has 15 consonants:

Consonants		Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Dorsal
Nasals		m	n
Plosives		p	t		k
Fricatives	Voiceless	ɸ	s	ɕ
	Voiced	β	z	ʑ	ʀ
Approximants		w	l	j	(w)

And 9 base vowels all of which can be long or nasalised:

Vowels	Front		Back
	Rounded	Unrounded
Close	i	y	u
Close-Mid	e	ø	o
Open-Mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open	a

Writing the language

Mosici is written using the Nahan script (Mosici:   [ãnaʀãːx ceɐ̯t͡s]), also known as the Póliah script (Mosici:   [ãpuʎjaːx ceɐ̯t͡s]).

The letters are the following:

Letter	Name	Translitteration	IPA Value
		p	/p/
		o	/o/
		l	/l/
		i	/e/, /j/
		a	/a/
		h	∅, lengthens a preceding vowel
	 	r	/ʀ/
		c	/k/
		n	/n/, nasalises a previous vowel, not pronounced in codas
		e	/ɛ/
		s	/s/
	 	z	/z/
		f	/ɸ/
	 	v	/β/
		m	/m/
		t	/t/

Strappo

The Nahan script also uses a diacritic: the Strappo (Mosici:  [ɕdʁapɔː]) that modifies the values of vowel letters. It is usually transliterated with an acute.

Letter	Value
á	/ɔ/
é	/i/
í	/i/
ó	/u/

Vowel Coalescence

Vowel coalescence is a large sound change that affected Mosici’s vowel clusters after the fosilisation of spelling. Its understanding is therefore necesary to read Mosici words properly.

This table summarises the coalescence patterns:

• All values in IPA
• If the first vowel is nasal, no coalescence happen, instead the /n/ is pronounced
• If the second vowel is nasal, the resulting vowel is nasal
• Of any of the vowel is long, the resulting vowel is long
• Coalescence is applied left to right.

Second vowel → First vowel ↓	i	u	e	o	ɛ	ɔ	a
i	ji	ju	je	jo	jɛ	jɔ	ja
y	i	u	ø	ø	ø	ø	ø
u	wi	u	we	wo	wɛ	wɔ	wa
e	i	ø	i	ø	e	ø	ɛ
ø	y	y	e	ø	e	ø	ø
o	ø	u	ø	u	ø	o	ɔ
ɛ	i	ø	i	ø	e	ø	ɛ
ɔ	ø	o	ø	o	ø	ɔ	ɔ
a	e	o	ɛ	ɔ	a	ɔ	ɔ

For more info see Mosici on Annwan’s wiki.

Name in other languages:

• Śácamþaśá: Amáśiciśá SoqiSimoA [ɐmɒːʃiciʃäː]