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.
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.
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.