Sesje

Sesje
Language family	Isolate
Writing system	Sesje Script
Official status
Spoken in	Amuj
Regulated by	Casual Mitosis Collective
Speaker
Demonym	Sesyen
Endonym	Sešê [ˈsɛ.ʃæ]
Exonym	Sesye
Number of speakers	1
Technical information
Usage	Recordkeeping and signage
Language code	SJE

Sesje (natively: Esêšê Ocŵcîd [ˈɛ.sæ.ˌʃæ ˈɔ.ʤʊ.ˌʤɪd]) is a language isolate spoken on the northern coast of the Amujan Sea and is an official language of The City State of Amuj.

Phonology

Consonants

Sesje has a total of 37 consonants.

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The consonants of Sesje

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 ɲ̊ 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 syllable that used to have an elided vowel [ə].
Between two vowels or between a vowel and the start of a word, ⟨w⟩ is pronounced as [w], not [u].
Two identical consonants one after the other get pronounced as a geminated consonant.

Vowels

Sesje has a total of 24 vowels.

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The vowels of Sesje

Unstressed [ə] is elided in polysyllabic words.
Vowels with circumflexes are unstressed variants of circumflexless vowels.
[ɑ] may be realised as [a] by younger speakers.
Two identical vowels in hiatus get pronounced as a long vowel.