Echaninese

Echaninese
Pronunciation	[ɛt͡ʃænɪˈniz]
Language family	Sesjan
Early form(s)	Sesje
Writing system	Latin, Esumzo Script
Official status
Spoken in	Heufauna
Regulated by	ÃMH (Heufaunese Language Regulator)
Speaker
Endonym	Eċanĩ Ò
Number of speakers	44
Technical information
Usage	Official language
Language code	ECN

Echaninese (natively: Eċanĩ Ò [ˈet͡ʃanĩ o˩]) is a Sesjan language spoken in Heufauna.

Phonology

Consonants

Echaninese has 32 consonants:

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ	ɴ ⟨ŋ̇⟩
Plosive		p b	t d		k ɡ	q ɢ ⟨ḳ ġ⟩	ʔ ⟨'⟩
Affricate			t͡s d͡z ⟨c x⟩	t͡ʃ d͡ʒ ⟨ċ ẋ⟩
Fricative	Non-Sibilant	ɸ β ⟨f v⟩	θ ð ⟨þ ð⟩		x ɣ ⟨q r⟩	χ ʁ ⟨q̇ ṙ⟩	h
	Sibilant		s z	ʃ ʒ ⟨ṡ ż⟩
Liquid		w		j

Vowels

Oral Vowels

Echaninese has 6 oral vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	ɛ ⟨e⟩	ə ⟨y⟩	ɔ ⟨o⟩
Low		a

Nasal Vowels

Echaninese also has 6 nasal vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
High	ĩ		ũ
Mid	ɛ̃ ⟨ẽ⟩	ə̃ ⟨ỹ⟩	ɔ̃ ⟨õ⟩
Low		ã

Tones

Along with the 12 vowel qualities, Echaninese also has 4 tones:

Tone	Diacritic
˥	V́
˩	V̀
˩˥	V̌
˥˩	V̂