Fraze
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Fraze is a Rajo-Faraneih Language spoken in various sections of the Measceineafh. Although relatively secure as a language, it is somewhat threatened by its relative, Rajat, which is more economically powerful, as a local lingua franca.
Phonology and Allophony
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stop | p b | t d | ʈ | k | ||
Affricate | ɟʝ) | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Fricative | f | s z | h | |||
Approximant | l | ɻ ɭ |
- Short Oral Vowels: /a e i o u/
- Long Oral Vowels: /a: i: u:/
- Nasal Vowels: /ɑ~ ɛ~/
- Consonantal Allophony and Distribution:
- /ʈ/ only appears initially, but contrasts with all other phonemes
- /ti di si zi li/ > [tʲi dʲi sʲi zʲi ʎi]
- [sʲi zʲi] are in free variation with [ʃi ʒi]
- /se ze/ is also in free variation with [ʃe ʒe]
- /ki hi ka ha/ > [ci çi qa χa]
- /b d ɟʝ/ > [b̊ d̊ ɟʝ̊] when word final
- /s f/ and [sʲ] > [z v zʲ] when between two vowels
- /b d ʈ/ > [bʰ dʰ ʈʰ] when word initial
- Vowel Allophony:
- /i: u:/ > [e: o:] prior to /m n/
- /a e i o u/ > [ɐ ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ] when unstressed
- /a: i: u:/ and [e: o:] > [ɐ: ɪ: ʊ: ɛ: ɔ:] when unstressed
- /ɑ~ ɛ~/ > [ɐ~ ə~] when unstressed
Morphology
Syntax
Lexicon
Changes from Central Measceineafh
- All diphthongs become falling (through torsion of components of rising ones)
- ɑ > a, æ > e
- z > ɻ
- ʃ ʒ > s z
- θ > s
- x > h > DELETED
- ui iu > y > i
- ue io > ø > e
- ua uo > o: u:
- ia ie > e: i:
- a e o i u [+open syllables] > a: e: o: i: u:
- a: e: o: > e: i: u:
- p# t# k# q# > DELETED
- q > χ > h
- b d ɖ > bʱ dʱ ɖʱ word initially
- ɖʱ > ʈʰ when stressed
- ɖʱ > ʈʱ when unstressed
- bʱ dʱ > bʰ dʰ when stressed
- CʰV CʱV > CʰV˥ CʰV˩ > CʰV˩˥ CʰV˩ > CʰV: CʰV
- Cm mC Cn nC > m m n n
- u:m um un u:n > o:m om on o:n
- i:m im in i:n > e:m em en e:n
- an am en em on om > ɑ~ ɑ~ ɛ~ ɛ~ ɑ~ ɑ~
- s z + i,e > ʃ ʒ (Still underway, therefore sporadic)
- do:m becomes a completely dominant third person pronoun, eliminating the inanimate, the distinct plural (pluralized do:m is do:me), and fourth person forms, and all other cases being determined by it (do:mi, etc).