Sesje

Sesje
Language family	Isolate
Writing system	Sesje Script
Official status
Spoken in	Amuj
Regulated by	Casual Mitosis Collective
Speaker
Demonym	Sesjen
Endonym	Seeš [ˈseːʃ]
Exonym	Sesje
Number of speakers	5
Technical information
Usage	Recordkeeping and signage
Language code	SJE

Sesje (natively: Esêêš Ooď [ˈɛ.sæːʃ oːʥ]) 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 85 consonants.

		Labial	Dentals	Alveolars	Postalveolars	Retroflex	Palatals	Velars	Uvulars	Glottals
Nasals		m̥ m ⟨ḿ m⟩		n̥ n ⟨ń n⟩		ɳ̊ ɳ ⟨ṇ́ ṇ⟩	ɲ̥ ɲ ⟨ñ́ ñ⟩	ŋ̊ ŋ ⟨ŋ́ ŋ⟩	ɴ̥ ɴ ⟨ŋ̌ ŋ̀⟩
Plosives	Voiceless	p p͡ɸ ⟨p p̀⟩		t ʦ ⟨t ŧ⟩	ʧ ⟨ç⟩	ʈ ʈ͡ʂ ⟨ṭ ç̇⟩	ʨ ⟨ť⟩	k k͡x ⟨k k̀⟩	q q͡χ ⟨q q̀⟩
	Voiced	b b͡β ⟨b b̀⟩		d ʣ ⟨d đ⟩	ʤ ⟨c⟩	ɖ ɖ͡ʐ ⟨ḍ c̣⟩	ʥ ⟨ď⟩	ɡ ɡ͡ɣ ⟨g g̀⟩	ɢ ɢ͡ʁ ⟨ġ ġ̖⟩
	Prenasalized	ᵐp ᵐb ᵐp͡ɸ ᵐb͡β ⟨ṕ b́ p̌ b̌⟩		ⁿt ⁿd ⁿʦ ⁿʣ ⟨t́ d́ ŧ́ đ́⟩	ⁿʧ ⁿʤ ⟨ḉ ć⟩	ᶯʈ ᶯɖ ᶯʈ͡ʂ ᶯɖ͡ʐ ⟨ṭ́ ḍ́ ç̇́ ć̣⟩	ⁿʨ ⁿʥ ⟨ť́ ď́⟩	ᵑk ᵑg ᵑk͡x ᵑg͡ɣ ⟨ḱ ǵ ǩ ǧ⟩	ᶰq ᶰɢ ᶰq͡χ ᶰɢ͡ʁ ⟨q́ ġ̗ q̌ ġ̭⟩
Fricatives	Voiceless	ɸ ⟨f⟩	θ ⟨þ⟩	s	ʃ ⟨š⟩	ʂ ⟨ṣ⟩	ɕ ç ⟨ś x́⟩	x ⟨x⟩	χ ⟨x̀⟩	h ⟨h⟩
	Voiced	β ⟨v⟩	ð	z	ʒ ⟨ž⟩	ʐ ⟨ẓ⟩	ʑ ʝ ⟨ź ğ́⟩	ɣ ⟨ğ⟩	ʁ ⟨ğ̀⟩	ɦ ⟨h⟩
Approximants		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 ɳ̊ ɳ ɲ̊ ɲ ŋ̊ ŋ ɴ̥ ɴ ʦ ʣ ʈ ɖ ʈ͡ʂ ɖ͡ʐ ʨ ʥ q ɢ ɸ β θ ð ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ɕ ʑ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ 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]