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Rashan
Spoken in:	Northern Scotland
Time Period:	4000 B.C.E - ?
Total speakers:	extinct
Genealogical classification:	Unknown
Basic word order:	SOV
Morphological type:	semi-fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Ergative-Absolutive
Created by:
Colton Booth	July 27, 2007-

Rashan was born July 27, 2007. It is the language spoken in Northern Scotland before Gaelic.

A. Phoneme Inventory:

a. Plosives: /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g>

b. Nasals: /m n N J / <m n nh nn >

c. Fricatives: / f B s z S T C/ <f v s z sh th kh >

d. Affricates: /ts tS dZ/ <ks ksh gh>

e. Lateral Approximants: /l/ <l>

f. Approximants: /r\ j/ <r y>

g. Vowels: /a e i o u ai au oi/ <a e i o u ai au oi>

B. Allophones:

a. [N] occurs medially as an allophone of /n/ b. [dZ] occurs medially as an allophone of /g/

C. Phonotactics

a. No consonant clusters consisting of only fricatives,plosives or approximants

b. The coda and onset cannot consist of more than two consonant sounds

c. Approximants also have to have a Plosive or only the following fricatives infront of them /f v s z h/ when ending a word.

d. /r\/ cannot come after /p b k s z g/

e. retroflex consonants can only come at the end of a word

D. Syllable Structure

a. CV(C)

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 Rashan was born July 27, 2007. It is the language spoken in Northern Scotland before Gaelic.
+== I. Phonology: ==
+'''A. Phoneme Inventory:'''
+a. Plosives: <nowiki>/p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g></nowiki>
+b. Nasals: <nowiki>/m n N J / <m n nh nn ></nowiki>
+c. Fricatives: <nowiki>/ f B s z S T C/ <f v s z sh th kh ></nowiki>
+d. Affricates: <nowiki>/ts  tS  dZ/ <ks ksh gh></nowiki>
+e. Lateral Approximants: <nowiki>/l/ <l></nowiki>
+f. Approximants: <nowiki>/r\ j/ <r y></nowiki>
+g. Vowels: <nowiki>/a e i o u  ai au oi/ <a e i o u ai au oi></nowiki>
+'''B. Allophones:'''
+a. [N] occurs medially as an allophone of /n/
+b. [dZ] occurs medially as an allophone of /g/
+'''C. Phonotactics'''
+a. No consonant clusters consisting of only fricatives,plosives or approximants
+b. The coda and onset cannot consist of more than two consonant sounds
+c.  Approximants also have to have a Plosive or only the following
+fricatives infront of them /f v s z h/ when ending a word.
+d. /r\/ cannot come after /p b k s z g/
+e. retroflex consonants can only come at the end of a word
+'''D. Syllable Structure'''
+a. CV(C)
+[[Category: conlangs]]