Sesje

Sesje
Language family	Isolate
Writing system	Sesje Script
Official status
Spoken in	Amuj
Regulated by	Casual Mitosis Collective
Speaker
Number of speakers	1
Technical information
Usage	Recordkeeping and signage
Language code	SJE

Sesje (natively: Esesje Ocŵgjîd [ˈɛ.sɛ.ˌʃɛ ˈɔ.ʤʊ.ˌʤɪd]) is a language isolate spoken on the northeastern coast of the Sea of Fortune and is the official language of the city state of Amuj.

Phonology

Consonants

Sesje has 14 base consonants and 23 allophonic consonants, for a total of 37 consonants.

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		[m̥] m ⟨hm m⟩		[n̥] n ⟨hn n⟩		[ɲ̥ ɲ] ⟨nhj nj⟩	[ŋ̊ ŋ] ⟨nk ng⟩
Plosive		p b		t d [ʦ ʣ] ⟨t d ts dz⟩	ʧ ʤ ⟨ç/tj/kj/tsj c/dj/gj/dzj⟩	[ʨ ʥ] ⟨çj/tçjh/tsçj cj/dcjh/dzcj⟩	k ɡ
Fricative		[ɸ β] ⟨ph bh⟩	[θ ð] ⟨th/phj dh/bhj⟩	s z	[ʃ ʒ] ⟨sj/çh/sç/stj/skj/stsj zj/ch/zc/zdj/zgj/zdzj	[ɕ ʑ ç ʝ] ⟨çjh/sçj cjh/zcj hj/khj ghj⟩	[x ɣ] ⟨kh gh⟩	h [ɦ] ⟨h h⟩
Liquid		w				j	[w]

Consonant clusters are only allowed at the end of a word if the constituent consonants used to surround an elided [ə], and even then, the consonants may swap to make either an allophone or a more easily pronounced consonant cluster.
The consonants [m̥ n̥ ɲ̥ ɲ ŋ̊ ŋ ʦ ʣ ʨ ʥ ɸ β θ ð ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ ç ʝ x ɣ ɦ] can only appear cross-syllabically, meaning across syllables, or at the end of a word that used to have an elided final vowel [ə].
Between two vowels or between a vowel and the start of a word, ⟨w⟩ is pronounced as [w], not [u].

Vowels

Sesje has 7 base vowels, 18 allophonic vowels, and 1 up-for-debate vowel, for a total of 25 or 26 total vowels.

		Front	Central	Back
High		i [y] ⟨i iw⟩	ɨ [ʉ] ⟨u/ui uw⟩	[ɯ] u ⟨wi w⟩
Near-High		[ɪ ʏ] ⟨î îw/iŵ⟩	[ᵻ ᵿ] ⟨û/ûi/uî ûw/uŵ⟩	[ɯ̽ ʊ] ⟨ŵi/wî ŵ⟩
Mid			[ə] ⟨ŷ⟩
Low-Mid		ɛ [œ] ⟨e ew/io⟩	ɜ [ɞ] ⟨y/ue uo⟩	[ʌ] ɔ ⟨we/oi o⟩
Near-Low		[æ ɶ̝] ⟨ê êw/eŵ/îo/iô⟩	[ɐ] ⟨ua⟩
Low		[a]		ɑ [ɒ] ⟨a/ŵe/wê/ôi/oî ô/â⟩

Unstressed [ə] is elided in polysyllabic words.
Vowels with circumflexes, i.e. [ɪ ᵻ ʊ ə æ ɒ], are allophones of [i ɨ u ɜ ɛ ɑ ɔ] when unstressed.
[ɑ] may be realised as [a] by younger speakers.