Sesje

Sesje
Language family	Isolate
Writing system	Sesje Script
Official status
Spoken in	Amuj
Regulated by	Casual Mitosis Collective
Speaker
Demonym	Sesjen
Endonym	Sešê [ˈsɛ.ʃæ]
Exonym	Sesje
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 41 consonants.

		Labials	Dentals	Alveolars	Postalveolars	Palatals	Velars	Glottals
Nasals		m̥ m ⟨ḿ m⟩		n̥ n ⟨ń n⟩		ɲ̥ ɲ ⟨ñ́ ñ⟩	ŋ̊ ŋ ⟨ŋ́ ŋ⟩
Plosives		p b		t d ʦ ʣ ⟨t d ŧ đ⟩	tʃ dʒ ⟨ç c⟩	ʨ ʥ ⟨ť ď⟩	k g
Fricatives		ɸ β ⟨f v⟩	θ ð ⟨þ ð⟩	s z	ʃ ʒ ⟨š ž⟩	ɕ ʑ ç ʝ ⟨ś ź x́ ğ́⟩	x ɣ ⟨x ğ⟩	h ɦ ⟨h h⟩
Approximant		ʍ w ɥ̊ ɥ ⟨ẃ w w̋ ẅ⟩				j (ɥ̊ ɥ)	(ʍ 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 ɲ̊ ɲ ŋ̊ ŋ ʦ ʣ ʨ ʥ ɸ β θ ð ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ ç ʝ x ɣ ɦ ʍ w] 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 ẅ⟩ are pronounced as [w ɥ], not [u y].
• Two identical consonants one after the other get pronounced as a geminated consonant.

Vowels

Sesje has a total of 30 vowels, 11 of which come in short and long varieties, and 5 of which are exclusively long.

		Front	Central	Back
High	Short	i y ⟨i ẅ⟩	ɨ ʉ ⟨u ü⟩	ɯ u ⟨ï w⟩
	Long	iː yː ⟨ii ẅẅ⟩	ɨː ʉː ⟨uu üü⟩	ɯː uː ⟨ïï ww⟩
Near-High		ɪ ʏ ⟨î ẅ̂⟩	ᵻ ᵿ ⟨û ü̂⟩	ɯ̽ ʊ ⟨ï̂ û⟩
Mid-High	Short		ɵ ⟨ÿ̂⟩
	Long	eː øː ⟨ee öö⟩	ɘː ɵː ⟨yy ÿÿ⟩	ɤː oː ⟨ëë oo⟩
Mid			ǝ ⟨ŷ⟩
Mid-Low		ɛ œ ⟨e ö⟩	ɜ ɞ ⟨y ÿ⟩	ʌ ɔ ⟨ë o⟩
Near-Low	Short	æ ɶ̝ ⟨ê ö̂⟩	ɐ ⟨ä⟩
	Long	æː ɶ̝ː ⟨êê ö̂ö̂⟩	ɐː ⟨ää⟩
Low	Short	[a]		ɑ ɒ ⟨a â⟩
	Long	[aː]		ɑː ⟨aa⟩

• Unstressed [ə] is elided in polysyllabic words.
• Vowels with circumflexes are unstressed variants of circumflexless vowels.
• [ɑ ɑː] may be realised as [a aː] by younger speakers.
• Two identical vowels in hiatus get pronounced as a long vowel.
• Long [ɪ ʏ ᵻ ᵿ ɯ̽ ʊ ɛ œ ɜ ɞ ʌ ɔ ɒ] are realised as [iː yː ɨː ʉː ɯː uː eː øː ɘː ɵː ɤː oː ɑː]