Yasaro
Yasaro (nį́si jasǎrą) is one of around 70,000 Zireen languages spoken on the planet Rishai. This is a brief introduction to the language, which will eventually grow to include more aspects of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
Consonants:
| p | th [t̪] | t | č [tʃ] | k | |
| m | nh [n̪] | n | ň [ɲ] | ŋ | |
| v | l | s [s~z] | r [ʐ] | j | h |
Vowels:
| i į | u ų | |
| e ę | ||
| a ą |
Pronunciation of nasal vowels:
- short vowel + homorganic nasal before stops: lę̀pa = [ˈlɛ̂mba], tą̀tu = [ˈtɔ̂ndɯ]
- long and nasal before fricatives: nį́si = [ˈnɪ̌ː̃zi], kelą̀ra = [keˈlɔ̂ː̃ʐa]
- short and non-nasal at end of words: jasǎrą = [ʝaˈsǎʐɔ]
Pitch accent: Underlying stress can fall on any syllable of the main root, but word-final syllables are never stressed. Stressed syllables on non-final syllables are pronounced with a falling tone. When a word ends with a syllable that would ordinarily be stressed, the preceding syllable gets the stress instead, but is pronounced with a rising tone. The stress remains on the final syllable of the root if a suffix is added (for example, tą́pa [ˈtɔ̌mba] "head", but tąpà-ta [tɔmˈpâɾa] "my head").
