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

Vowels: /a e i o u/

Morphology

Nominal Morphology

Five major cases are distinguished morphologically - nominative, accusative, genitive, instrumental, and dative. Nominative is the base form, while the suffix -i is added to regular nouns to form the accusative. Meanwhile, the other cases are formed by what were prepositions (and now are prefixes), those being fi- (genitive), di- (instrumental), and ni- (dative).

Verbal Morphology

Verbs conjugate for tense, mood, person, and number in a somewhat agglutinative fashion.

Changes from Central Measceineafh

• f v ʒ x > DELETE
• θ > f
• 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.