Araçanic

Araçanic
Pronunciation	(English: /ˌɑ.ɹ̠ə.'sɑ.nɪk/, -/'θɑ.nɪk/)
Language family	Çana
Early form(s)	Old Araçanic, Thessama, Proto-Çana (Unattested)
Writing system	Xudha alphabet
Official status
Spoken in	Araçana
Speaker
Endonym	çeha Çana /s̪e.ha s̪a.na/ ['s̪e.ha.'z̪ã.na]
Technical information
Usage	Administrative language, Native language, Literary Language

Araçanic is the official language of and most commonly spoken language in Araçana.

Name

Araçanic is known most commonly to its native speakers as çeha Çana, the Çana language. Other names used to refer to the standard dialect are çeha Arali Çana (Language of Çana City), and çeha ir-Imhali Kojodhurer (Language of the South of the Ŋasekaiv). These other names are used most often to differenciate the standard dialect from the other Çana dialects.

"Araçanic" is the name preferred in English for the language; The term "Araçanni" is used as a demonym for things relating to the country itself and should not be used to refer to the language. For a brief time, the language was known as "Araçanese," but this name was decided against by Sly in order to avoid confusion with the Arakanese and Aragonese languages. The name "Araçanic" was suggested by Fin, who has since been banned from the Nguhcord.

Name in other languages:

• Araçanni Yiddish: צאַנישע שפּראַך Tsâniše Šprach '['t͜sa.nɪ.ʃə'ʃpraχ]

Geographic Distribution

The location of each dialect.

Araçanic is the sole official language of Araçana, and is currently not recognized as an official language by any other ŋation. A highly divergent dialect is spoken in Kozdenen by Koz Araçanic speakers, but is not used for official purposes.

Due to Araçana’s membership, Araçanic (in its standard form) has been an official language of the Gulf Union since April 28th, 2025, alongside the languages of the other member states.

Dialectology

Standard Araçanic is based on the speech of Çana City Province; pronunciation vocabulary, and to a lesser extent grammar, varies widely from place to place. Linguists classify these into 5 main dialects:

• Native to Araçana:
  • Çana City Dialect
  • Ŋasegak Dialect
  • West Irgüya Dialect
  • Central Irgüya Dialect
  • Southeast Irgüya Dialect
• Native to places outside Araçana:
  • Koz Dialect

Note that the dialect referred to as Koz Araçanic is substantially more divergent from standard Araçanic than the Araçanic spoken by recently immigrated families to Kozdenen, who carry on the features of the dialect they came from.

Phonology

Consonants

Standard Araçanic distinguishes between 17 consonants phonemically.

	Labial	Denti-Alveolar	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n	ɲ
Plosive	p b	t d		dʒ	k g
Fricative		s̪	s	ʃ	x	h
Lateral			l
Trill			r

Word Boundaries' Sandhi

Word-initial voiceless stops are usually only weakly unvoiced when they come directly after a word ending in a vowel or /r/, and the fricatives /s̪/, /s/, /ʃ/, and /x/ are fully voiced to [z̪], [z], [ʒ], [ɣ] in the same circumstances.

/t/, the only stop permitted to end a word, is not pronounced [t] in that position save for when it ends an utterance. If the following word begins with a vowel, the /t/ is pronounced as an approximant [ð̞]. If the following word begins with a consonant, the /t/ is usually realized as gemination of that consonant.

Controversy About Murmured Stops

Many older analyses of Araçanic's consonant inventory included the murmured stops */bʱ/, */dʱ/, and */dʒʱ/, which are now usually represented in phonemic trascriptions as sequences of a voiced stop and /h/. In ancient forms of the language, these sequences were treated as single phonemes, along with aspirated stops like */pʰ/ and */tʰ/. However, sound changes such as the loss of coda consonants before /bh/, /dh/, and /dʒh/, and the emergence of new clusters like /mh/ and /s̪h/ make it more convenient to treat these as clusters of a voiced stop and /h/.

Other Allophonic Rules

/g/ is pronounced [ɣ] between vowels.

/n/ assimilates to [n̪] before a following denti-alveolar consonant.

/n/ becomes [ŋ] before /g/ and before /k/, although the sequence /nk/ appears only in loanwords.

after a consonant, /dʒ/ becomes deaffricated to /ɟ/.

After the voiced consonants /m/, /ɲ/, /b/, /d/, /dʒ/, and /r/, /h/ becomes breathy voiced or murmured [ɦ].

Vowels

Standard Araçanic distinguishes between 5 vowels phonemically.

Vowel Phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Vowel Phones

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i i̥		u u̥
Near-Close (Lax)	ɪ̃	ɘ̝̃	ʊ̃
Mid	e ẽ	ɘ ɘ̃	o õ
Near-Open (Lax)	æ̃
Open		a ã

Allophony

The vowel /a/ is raised in pronunciation to [ɘ] when the next syllable contains an /i/ or an /u/. The vowel /o/ is slightly fronted when the the next syllable contains an /i/. This does not bode well for Umlaut haters in the future.

/i/, /u/, and /e/ in non-initial syllables become voiceless when in between two voiceless consonants. For most speakers, the voiceless allophone of /e/ is identical in pronunciation to the voiceless /i/.

The low and mid vowels /a/, /e/, /o/, [ɘ] become nasalized before any nasal consonant. Before a nasal in a syllable coda, nasalized vowels are raised and laxed to [æ̃], [ɪ̃], [ʊ̃], [ɘ̝̃]. Before an initial nasal in the following syllable, the height of the vowel is unaffected.

The sequences /u.b/ and /u.g/ become lenited to [wː], the sequences /i.dʒ/ and /i.g/ likewise become [jː], and the sequences /u.dʒ/ and /i.b/ usually become [ɥː], although this can further be simplified to [jː].

Stress

Stress in Araçanic is almost always predictable, occuring in the first syllable of words. The exception is that when a word is made definite by attaching the definite affix to its start, the stress is not moved and remains on the now-second syllable. In some cases this is the sole phonetic difference between two words that would otherwise be homophones, such as in the pair ingruhu [ˈiŋ.ɡru.hu], meaning "sea vegetable," and in-gruhu [iŋ.ˈɡru.hu], meaning "the hand."

Phonotactics

Syllable Structure

The syllable structure may be summarized thusly:

• (Onset) (/r/) Vowel (Coda)

Where:

The onset may be any consonant.

/r/ may follow the onset consonants /p/, /b/, /k/, and /g/.

/g/ and /h/ do not begin any native words. Loanwords beginning with /g/ such as geñat (from Yiddish געגנט) are often pronounced with [x], while initial /h/ is mostly omitted from pronunciation entirely.

Only some of the hypothetically possible cross-syllable clusters given the syllable structure are actually permitted in Araçanic vocabulary: The cross-syllable clusters -rm-, -mp-, -mpr-, -rp-, -nt-, -rt-, -nk-, -nkr-, -rk-, -mb-, -mbr-, -rb-, -nd-, -rd-, -ñj-, -rj-, -ng-, -ngr-, -rg-, -rxi-, -rx-, -mh-, -ñh-, -bh-, -dh-, -jh-, -çh-, and -rh-. The only consonants which may end a word are n, ñ, t, ç, and r.

Restrictions Before /i/

Because of previous sound changes, the consonants /t/, /d/, /n/, /s/, and /x/ can never be found before the vowel /i/ in the modern day.

Dialectal Pronunciation Differences

See also: Koz Araçanic

Consonants

The approximate locations of three major isoglosses: 1. Gemination of //𝼆// and //ɲ// before non-front vowels occurs west of the line, 2. Pronunciation of //l// as [ʎ] occurs west of the line, and 3. Pronunciation of coda /t/ as a plosive occurs south of the line.

The dialects of Ŋasegak and northwestern Irgüya usually pronounce //l// as [ʎ]. These same dialects will often preserve a distinction between /b/ and /β/, as do the dialects of the southeast. The dialects of northwest and central Irgüya will geminate //ɲ// and //l// to [ɲː] and [lː]/[ʎː] when they occur before the vowels /a/, /o/, and /u/. The fricatives and approximants are a disaster, as detailed below:

Realization of Variable Consonant Diaphonemes

	//ɲ//	//n//	//s̪//	//s//	//xʲ//	//𝼆//	//ʎ//	//w//	//β//	//b//	//d//	//d͜ʒ//	//g//	//t// (Onset)	Final /t/ before vowels
Araçanni Dialects
City	/ɲ/	/n/	/s̪/	/s/	/ʃ/		/l/	/b/			/d/	/d͜ʒ/	/g/ [ɣ]	/t/	[ð̞]
Ŋasegak	/ɲ/	/n/	/s̪/	/s/	/ʃ/		/ʎ/	/β/		/b/	/d/	/d͜ʒ/	/ʁ/	/t/	[ð̞]
West Irgüya	/ɲ/ [ɲː]	/n/	/s̪/	/s/	/ʃ/		/ʎ/ [ʎː]	/b/			/d/	/d͜ʒ/	/g/ [ɣ]	/t/	[ð̞]
Central Irgüya	/ɲ/ [ɲː]	/n/	/s̪/	/s/	/ʃ/	/ɬ/	/l/ [lː]	/b/			/d/	/d͜ʒ/	/g/ [ɣ]	/t/	[d]
Southeast Irgüya	/n/		/θ/	/s/		/ɬ/	/l/	/v/		/b/	/t/	/t͜s/	/g/	/t/	[t]
Dialects Outside Araçana
Kozdenen	/n/	/ɳ/	/s/	/ʂ/	/x/		/l/	/ɭ/	/β/		/ʐ/	/z/	/ɣ/	/ʈ/	unpronounced

Vowels

The allophonic raising of nasalized vowels typical of the standard dialect is mainly only found in the city. In southeast and central Irgüya, the close vowels are not exempt from nasalization. In Ŋasegak, the voiceless allophones [i̥] and [u̥] are lost, leaving behind aspiration of the preceding consonant, and palatalization if the vowel lost is an [i̥]. On Ŋasegak, //o// is open-mid [ɔ], while standard variety’s /e/ sometimes corresponds to [ɛ] and sometimes to [i]. The diaphoneme found on Ŋasegak as [i] and in standard speech as [e] is traditionally transcribed //ø//. A chain shift has occurred in the southeast, with //ø// → /ɛ/, //e// → /a/, and //a// → /ɔ/. The anticipatory raising of /a/ before following close vowels results in a merger with /o/ in that dialect. The devoicing of close vowels is also absent from the southeast.

Realization of Vowel Diaphonemes

	//a//	//a// + following close vowel	//e//	//e// + f. cl. v.	//ø//	//i//	//o//	//u//
Araçanni Dialects
City	[a] [ã] [æ̃]	[ɘ] [ɘ̃] [ɘ̝̃]	[e] [ẽ] [ɪ̃] [i̥]			[i] [i̥]	[o] [õ] [ʊ̃]	[u] [u̥]
Ŋasegak	[a] [ã]	[ɘ] [ɘ̃]	[e] [ẽ] [ʰʲ]		[i] [ʰʲ]		[o] [õ]	[u] [ʰ]
West Irgüya	[a] [ã]	[ɘ] [ɘ̃]	[e] [ẽ]			[i] [i̥]	[o] [õ]	[u] [u̥]
Central Irgüya	[ɑ] [ɑ̃]	[ɤ] [ɤ̃]	[ɛ] [ɛ̃]			[i] [i̥]	[o] [õ]	[u] [u̥]
Southeast Irgüya	[ɔ] [ɔ̃]	[o] [õ]	[a] [ã]	[ɛ] [ɛ̃]		[i] [ĩ]	[o] [õ]	[u] [ũ]
Dialects Outside Araçana
Kozdenen	[a] [ã]	[ɨ] [ɨ̃]	[e] [ẽ]		[ɨ]	[i]	[o] [õ]	[u]

Koz Dialect

Both [ɨ] and [ɨ̃] are now separately phonemic, due to the coöccurrence of two factors: The merger of //ø// with raised //a//, and the absence of nasalization of //i//, //u//, and //ø//.

Writing

Xudha Alphabet

The Xudha is the alphabet used to write Araçanic. It is said legendarily to be named after its inventor, although this is dubious historically. It descends directly from the alphabet used for Thessama, which was likely adapted at least in part from an early Greek alphabet, judging by the Thessama names of the letters and by the order they are always listed in, as well as the appearance of some letters. Modern-day Xudha writing makes use of 19 letters:

Xudha Table of Letters

Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter Name	Phoneme
amha	/a/		mi	/m/		uhun	/u/, /b/ (when fortified)
bida	/b/		ñi	/n/, /ɲ/ (before ida)		xi	/x/, /ʃ/ (before ida)
jinda	/d/, /dʒ/ (before ida)		kri	/kr/, /r/ (after voiced kapa)		sadaxi	/s/
çida	/s̺/		pi	/p/		pri	/pr/
ida	/i/, /dʒ/ (when fortified)		ru	/r/		egrun	/e/
kapa	/k/		inga	/h/
lada	/l/		to	/t/

Digraphs are also used:

Xudha Table of Digraphs

Letter Names	Phoneme
amha uhun	/o/
jinda ida (before vowels)	/dʒ/
ñi ida (before vowels)	/ɲ/
xi ida (before vowels)	/ʃ/
uhun ida (often rendered as a single letter)	/i/ (in loanwords from Kozramva /ɨ/)
ida ñi (before a consonant or word-finally)	/ɲ/

Some diacritics are used in Araçanic words, and for transcribing foreign words:

Xudha Table of Diacritics

Diacritic Name (English)	Diacritic Name (Araçanic)	Usage
Dot Above	punta bormeli (Koz Araçanic: puntha vormeli)	Indicates voicing of a normally voiceless letter, most importantly turning kapa into /g/. May also be placed above ida and uhun to indicate their fortified variants, although this is often omitted depending on context.
Two Dots Above	punta naseli (Koz Araçanic: puntha naseli)	Indicates nasalization and implies voicing, usually of consonants. For example, a /ŋ/ can be written with a kapa and two dots above.
Line Under	rekopulerma	Indicates retroflex consonants from Kozramva.

Romanization

Xeçha University Standard

On September 26, 2025, the letter <Z z> was officially replaced with the letter <Ç ç>, causing many headaches for Sly.

2025 Standard Araçanic Latin Alphabet

Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme
A a	a	/a/		I i	i	/i/		Ñ ñ	ñu	/ɲ/		U u	u	/u/
B b	be	/b/		J j	je	/dʒ/		O o	o	/o/		X x	xa	/x/, /ʃ/ (before i)
D d	de	/d/		K k	ke	/k/		P p	pe	/p/		Xi xi	xia	/ʃ/
E e	e	/e/		L l	le	/l/		R r	ra	/r/		Ç ç	ça	/s̪/
G g	age	/g/		M m	mu	/m/		S s	sa	/s/
H h	aha	/h/		N n	nu	/n/		T t	te	/t/

Kozedenen University Standard

See also: Koz Araçanic

This alternate standard for romanization is based on the pronunciation of the Koz Dialect. (Rough draft, Feel free to edit it as much as you want Pleb)

2025 Koz Araçanic Latin Alphabet

Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme		Letter	Letter Name	Phoneme
A a	a	/a/		I i	i	/i/		N n	nu	/n/		Th th	tha	/ʈ/		‘	kharpi ohani	/h/, after a consonant
à ã	a tʉle	/ɨ̃/		K k	ke	/k/		Nh nh	nhu	/ɳ/		U u	u	/u/
Ch ch	cha	/ʂ/		Kh kh	kha	/x/		O o	o	/o/		Ʉ ʉ	ʉ	/ɨ/
E e	e	/e/		L l	le	/l/		P p	pe	/p/		V v	va	/β/
G g	ga	/ɣ/		Lh lh	lhe	/ɭ/		R r	ra	/r/		Z	za	/z/
H h	ha	/h/		M m	mu	/m/		S s	sa	/s/		Zh	zha	/ʐ/

More to come on the Koz Araçanic pronunciation and spelling of loaned my, py, vy, ṽy. (Current Idea: Çana community of Kozdenen pronounces them as fully-palatal [ɲ, c, j, ɲ] which could be written with <nhy, thy, y, nhy> by analogy with Kozramva instances of those sounds. Alternatively, it could be simpler to write them with <ỹ, ky, y, ỹ> or something like that.)

Also, the retroflex consonants /ɳ/ /ɭ/ /ʂ/ /ʈ/ /ʐ/ are never going to occur in Çana-originating vocabulary before /i/ because they come from the original alveolars, so their corresponding palatal allophones in Kozramva might be completely differently reflected. Perhaps the stereotypical Çana accent to the Koz is to replace the palatal allophones of the retroflexes in Kozramva words with alveolar sounds instead. Idk why I am talking to Pleb through the wiki, this seems mighty impractical.

Grammar

Constituent Order

Clauses in Araçanic are structured in Subject-Verb-Object order.

Noun Phrases

Definiteness

Nouns in Araçanic can be made definite by adding a cliticized article to the beginning of the word. Due to historical sound changes, the correct definite form of a noun is often unpredictable, as demonstrated by contrasting the noun bibha, which becomes ir-ubha when definite, with the similar noun beran, which becomes i-beran when definite.

Nouns which denote singular natural features like "Sun" or "Bedrock" do not ever become definite. Nouns that would otherwise be definite are not marked as such when being differentiated using adjectives. For example, if there are two books, and one wished to refer to specifically the blue one, the blue book would be referred to with ori lamha (Literally "Blue book" or "A blue book") instead of ir-ori lamha ("The blue book.") This rule applies to many toponymic phrases, such as Arat Koxi (Kozdenen), which can be translated as "The Koz city."

Case

In Araçanic, nouns decline into six cases: The nominative case, the accusative case, the lative case, the ablative case, the locative case, and the genitive case.

Declension Patterns

Araçanic's noun cases are marked by suffixes, which change in numerous ways depending on the vowel or consonant that ends the base form of the noun. Additionally, they may behave in one of two ways with words ending in vowels, depending on if there was once a final */s/ which was debuccalized and then elided. Thus, nouns ending in vowels are labelled lexically as being either "Open" or "Clipped" depending on which pattern the case-markers take.

Case Marker Allomorphs

Ending of Nominative	Accusative Suffix	Lative Suffix	Ablative Suffix	Locative Suffix	Genitive Suffix
a, e, i, o, or u (Open)	-gi	-ri	-duç	-rer	Vowel Change (See next table)
a, e, i, o, or u (Clipped)	-xi	-ri	-ruç	-her	-li
e from *ui (Open)	-gi	-ri	-(u)juç	-rer	-(u)ji
e from *ui (Clipped)	-(u)xi	-(u)ri	-ruç	-(u)her	-(u)li
n	-gi	-(r)i	-(r)uç	-(r)er	-(l)i
en from *uin	-(u)ngi	-(ur)i	-(r)uç	-(ur)er	-(ul)i
r	-(x)i	-i	-uç	-(h)er	-(l)i
er from *uir	-(ux)i	-(ur)i	-uç	-(uh)er	-(ul)i
t	-(k)i	-(h)i	-(d)uç	-(ç)er	-(l)i
ç	-(k)i	-(h)i	-(j)uç	-er	-(l)i
ñ	-(n)gi	-(r)i	-(e/ir)uç	--(e/ir)er	-(l)i

Genitive Vowel Changes

Ending of Nominative	Ending of Genitive
a	e
e	e
i	i
o	e
u	e

Personal Pronouns

Personal Pronouns

	1st person	1st person inc. plural	2nd person	3rd person
				Proximate	Obviative
Nominative	u [u ~ w]	ren	ki	in	xe
Accusative	at	ata	kigi	ingi	xuxi
Lative	ahi	atari	kiri	tehi	xuri
Ablative	aduç	ataduç	kiduç	tejuç	xuruç
Locative	açer	atarer	kirer	teçer	xuher
Genitive	uba	renga	ka	ida	xuja

Verbs

Verbal Aspect

Verbs in Araçanic come in four forms: an form known as the "unmarked" form, a form marked as perfective, a form marked as habitual, and a form marked as cessative. For example, these are the forms of the word çeha, meaning "speak" or "sign":

Unmarked	Perfective	Habitual	Cessative
çeha	çehage	çeho	çehaxa

The unmarked forms of the verb cannot be used on their own. Instead, the unmarked form can be turned into a adjective-like participle phrase with the addition of the particle da. To express the continuous, continuative, and inchoative aspects, this participle is nominalized by using it to describe the word an, which means "thing" or "what," and the verbs ran, xaç, and irat, which mean "be at," "go," and "make," respectively, are applied to this nominalized phrase. In the present tense, ran is left out as a zero-copula of sorts. Note that an will end up in the locative case for continuous verbs, the lative case for continuative verbs, and the accusative case for inchoative verbs. Any patient of the action is put into the genitive case after the nominalized verb. For example, the sentence U ar’r angar d’eda means something like "I'm eating it," but analyzing it literally, it says "I'm at the eating of it," or "I'm at its eating." Da is contracted to any words following it that begin with a vowel, so da ida becomes d’eda and da uba becomes d’oba.

In the present tense, continuative statements can also be interpreted as gnomic.

The following table shows all 6 possible aspects in the past tense, using the verb angar "eat," a first-person subject, and a third-person object:

Sentence	Gloss	Aspect	English Translation
U ran ir ar’r angar d’eda.	1 at PAST thing-LOCATIVE eat PARTICIPLE 3-GENITIVE	Continuous	I was eating it.
U xaç ir ari angar d’eda.	1 go PAST thing-LATIVE eat PARTICIPLE 3-GENITIVE	Continuative	I was still eating it.
U irat ir angi angar d’eda.	1 make PAST thing-ACCUSATIVE eat PARTICIPLE 3-GENITIVE	Inchoative	I was starting to eat it.
U angaxa ir ingi.	1 eat-CESSATIVE PAST 3-ACCUSATIVE	Cessative	I finished eating it.
U angarmu ir ingi.	1 eat-HABITUAL PAST 3-ACCUSATIVE	Habitual	I used to eat it.
U angare ir ingi.	1 eat-PERFECTIVE PAST 3-ACCUSATIVE	Perfective	I ate it.

Verbal Tense

The particles ir and ko are placed after a verb in order to mark the past and future tenses, respectively. It is important to note that in Continuous, Continuative, and Inchoative constructions, ir and ko are always placed after ran, xaç, and irat, because the main verb is nominalized.

A sound change among many younger speakers causes /ir/ and /ur/ to merge as the syllabic trill /r̩/. This almost always causes the ir past tense particle to become non-syllablic /r/ preceding a word beginning with a vowel. For example, U angaxa ir ingi [waŋ.ga.xɘ ir iŋ.gi] might become [waŋ.ga.xɘ riŋ.gi].

The Particles Da and Ka

The particle da is used for many purposes, including the formation of active participles (And thus the formation of the Continuous, Continuative, and Inchoative aspects), and as a conjunction indicating co-occurence. ka is the passivized version of da.

Dialectal Grammar Differences

See also: Koz Araçanic

The Koz Dialect drops the /r/ from the end of the Locative case marker.

Example Texts

Sentence 1.

Araçanic (Xudha):

Araçanic (Latin): Luma pambañ range ir it çeharer ina sañ, it ijhurmarer ina sañ.

Araçanic (Narrow IPA): ['lu.ma.'pæ̃m.bæ̃ɲ.'ræ̃ŋ.ge.i.ri.'s̪ːe.ha.re.'ri.na.'zɘ̝̃ɲ ‖ i.'ð̞idʒ.ɦur.ma.re.'ri.na.zæ̃ɲ]

Gloss: world entire exist-PERFECTIVE PAST and language-LOCATIVE one only , and speech-LOCATIVE one only .

English: The whole world was of just one language and just one speech.

Sentence 2.

Araçanic (Xudha):

Araçanic (Latin): Ba ki la ar’r kremi da la ar’r beñhoxiha da?

Araçanic (Narrow IPA): ['bɘ.'ki.la.ar.'krẽ.mi.la.da.ɘr.'bɪ̃ɲ.ɦo.ʃi̥.ha.da]

Gloss: NEGATIVE 2 or ∅ thing-LOCATIVE be_bored PARTICIPLE or ∅ thing-LOCATIVE procrastinate PARTICIPLE ?

English: Are you bored or procrastinating?

Sentence 3.

Araçanic (Xudha):

Araçanic (Latin): Ili, ki xiaru ingi kuç "Ham açambi ka," merma ingi naxabige aramaduç.

Araçanic (Narrow IPA): [i.li ‖ 'ki.'ʒɘ.ru.'iŋ.gi.'kus̪ ‖ Ham 'a.s̪ɘ̝̃m.bi.ka ‖ 'mer.mɘ.'iŋ.gi.'na.xɘ.bjːe.'a.rã.mɘ.dus̪]

Gloss: just_as , 2 call-HABITUAL 3-ACCUSATIVE with " Ham steam PASSIVE_PARTICIPLE " despite 3-ACCUSATIVE grill-PERFECTIVE plain_sight-ABLATIVE .

English: And you call them: "Steamed hams," despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.

Vocabulary

See: Araçanic Vocabulary