Zanchulese

Zanchulese
Language family	Sesjan
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Spoken in	South Amuj
Regulated by	Jukbuch Ian
Speaker
Endonym	Zaantyul Oody [ˈzɑːn.t͡ʂɨɫ oːd͡ʐ]
Exonym	Zanchulese
Number of speakers	2
Technical information
Usage	Recordkeeping and signage
Language code	ZNC

Zanchulese (natively: Zaantyul Oody [ˈzɑːn.t͡ʂɨɫ oːd͡ʐ]) is a Sesjan language closely related to Cadwg. It is spoken on the northern coast of the Amujan Sea and is the official language of the People's Free City of Amuj.

Phonology

Consonants

Zanchulese has 28 phonemic consonants:

Consonants		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Nasal		/m/	/n/		/ɲ/ ⟨ny⟩		/ɴ/ ⟨ṅ⟩
Plosive	Voiceless	/p/	/t/	/t͡ʂ/ ⟨ty⟩		/k/	/q/
	Voiced	/b/	/d/	/d͡ʐ/ ⟨dy⟩		/g/	/ɢ/ ⟨ȝ⟩
Fricative	Voiceless	/f/	/s/	/ʂ/ ⟨sy⟩		/x/	/χ/ ⟨h⟩
	Voiced	/v/	/z/	/ʐ/ ⟨zy⟩		/ɣ/ ⟨j⟩	/ʁ/ ⟨rh⟩
Liquid		/w/	/ɫ/ ⟨l⟩		/j/ ⟨y⟩	(w)	/ʀ/ ⟨r⟩

• Unlike in Cadwg, alveolar and postalveolar consonants don't allophonize when in contact with velar consonants.
• /w ɫ ʂ ʐ/ (spelled ⟨w l sy zy⟩) appear in place of Cadwg's /β̞ l ʃ ʒ/.
• Zanchulese also has the phonemes /t͡ʂ d͡ʐ ɲ ɴ q ɢ χ ʁ ʀ/ (spelled ⟨ty dy ny ṅ q ȝ h rh r⟩).

Vowels

Zanchulese has 6 phonemic vowels, each with 2 phonemic length:

Vowels		Front	Central	Back
High	Short	/i/	/ɨ/ ⟨û⟩	/u/
	Long	/iː/ ⟨ii⟩	/ɨː/ ⟨ûû⟩	/uː/ ⟨uu⟩
Mid	Short	/e/		/o/
	Long	/eː/ ⟨ee⟩		/oː/ ⟨oo⟩
Low	Short			/ɑ/
	Long			/ɑː/ ⟨aa⟩

• Unlike in Cadwg, /ə əː/ are merged with /ɑ ɑː/.