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 northeastern coast of the Sea of Fortune and is the official language of The City State of Amuj.

Phonology

Consonants

Sesje has a total of 37 consonants.

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m̥ m ⟨m m⟩		n̥ n ⟨ń n⟩		ɲ̥ ɲ ⟨ñ ñ⟩	ŋ̊ ŋ ⟨ŋ ŋ⟩
Plosive		p b		t d ʦ ʣ ⟨t d ts dz⟩	ʧ ʤ ⟨ç c⟩	ʨ ʥ ⟨tś dź⟩	k ɡ
Fricative		[ɸ β] ⟨f v⟩	[θ ð] ⟨þ ð⟩	s z	[ʃ ʒ] ⟨š ž⟩	[ɕ ʑ ç ʝ] ⟨ś ź x ğ⟩	[x ɣ] ⟨x ğ⟩	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 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.

		Front	Central	Back
High		i y ⟨i w⟩	ɨ ʉ ⟨u ü⟩	ɯ u ⟨ï w⟩
Near-High		ɪ ʏ ⟨î w⟩	ᵻ ᵿ ⟨û ü⟩	ɯ̽ ʊ ⟨ï ŵ⟩
Mid			ə ⟨ŷ⟩
Low-Mid		ɛ œ ⟨e ö⟩	ɜ ɞ ⟨y ÿ⟩	ʌ ɔ ⟨ë o⟩
Near-Low		æ ɶ̝ ⟨ê ö⟩	ɐ ⟨ä⟩
Low		[a]		ɑ ɒ ⟨a â⟩

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.