Mosici

Mosici mosécéc an-ila
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 Mosécé (Mosici: mosécéc an-ila /mosikik ãtela/) 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 writen using the Nahan script (Mosici: narahnc an-cirta /naʀãːk ãkeʀta/), also know as the Póliah script (Mosici: Póliahc an-cirta /puljaːk ãkeʀta/).

The letters are the following:

Letter	Name	Translitteration	IPA Value
p	paí	p	/p/
o	ós	o	/o/
l	lán	l	/l/
i	írni	i	/e/, /j/
a	ánta	a	/a/
h	hapfe	h	∅, lengthens a preceding vowel
r	ris	r	/ʀ/
u	uoc	u	/w/
c	cal	c	/k/
n	naol	n	/n/, nasalises a previous vowel, not pronounced in codas
e	éstal	e	/ɛ/
s	sipal	s	/s/
z	zorel	z	/z/
f	fasoh	f	/ɸ/
v	viren	v	/β/
m	milo	m	/m/
t	tecio	t	/t/

Strappo

The nahan script also uses a diacritic: the Strappo (Mosici sitrapaóh /ɕtrapoː/) that modify the value of the vowel letters. It is usually translitterated 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