Rajat

Rajat is spoken in much of the Measceineafh, as it is rapidly becoming a local lingua franca, largely because of indigenous political control.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p  b	t  d	ɖ	ɟ	k
Fricative	f	s		ç		h
Nasal	m	n
Approximant		l	ɻ  ɭ

Changes from Central Measceineafh

• f v x > DELETE
• ɖ > ʈ
• θ > f ([v] where intervocular)
• f# v# s# z# > DELETE
• ɟʝ) > ɟ
• iæ iɑ ie io iu > e e i ø y > e e i e i
• æ ɑ > a
• e [-stress|+closed syllable] > E > ə > a
• ʃ + i,e + V > ʃV ([ʒ] where intervocular) > ç ([ʝ] intervocularly)
• Stress regularizes to intial where there are three or fewer syllables; penultimate where there are more.
• Fusion of fi (genitive), di (instrumental), and ni (dative) to beginning of nouns produces further cases and pushes stress back to second syllable, when it then regularizes again to penultimate in all nouns.