Caerimoscnë

Caerimoscnë (pronunciation: [t͡se̞ɾʲimo̞ɕt͡ɕɲə]) is a Mallo-Brausian language native to the Brausian country of Caerimrodhë. It is also spoken in (GFHGJFGJKSJ).

History

Within the Mallo-Brausian language family, Caerimoscnë appears to exist on a separate branch from all other extant Mallo-Brausian languages.

Phonology

Caerimoscnë's phonology involves many morphophonological processes that can be seen when words are affixed. In some cases, certain consonant phonemes pattern differently to their phonetic pronunciation when looking at these processes.

The following is a table showing the consonants of Caerimoscnë as they are pronounced.

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Alveolo-Palatal	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	Voiced	m		n		ɲ	(ŋ)
	Voiceless			n̥		ɲ̊
Plosive		p		t		c	k	q
Affricate		p͡f		t͡s	t͡ɕ
Fricative		f	θ	s	ɕ	ç			h
Approximant	Voiced	w		ɾ l		j
	Voiceless	ʍ		ɾ̥ l̥

All consonants apart from /w/, /j/, /ɾ/, /h/, and the voiceless resonants are able to be geminated, though this may be better analyzed as a sequence of two of the same consonant.

However, in terms of phonological patterning, the consonants may be better described like this:

		Labial	Dental	Coronal		Palatal	Dorsal
				Plain	Palatalized
Nasal	Voiced	m		n	ɲ		(ŋ)
	Voiceless	ʍ		n̥	ɲ̊
Plosive	Non-tone-causing	p		t	c		k
	Tone-causing	b		d	ɟ		g
Affricate	Non-tone-causing	p͡f		t͡s	t͡ɕ		q
	Tone-causing
Fricative	Non-tone-causing	f	θ	s	ɕ	ç	h
	Tone-causing
Approximant	Voiced	w		ɾ l	ɾʲ~rj lʲ~lj	j
	Voiceless			ɾ̥ l̥	ɾ̥ʲ~ɾ̥j l̥ʲ~l̥j

As shown in the table, the phoneme /ʍ/ in fact patterns as the voiceless counterpart to /m/, and /q/ patterns as the dorsal affricate.

The term "tone-causing" when discussing Caerimoscnë refers to consonants which give a high tone to a preceding vowel. They pattern as separate phonemes, or perhaps diaphonemes, since they are pronounced identically to their non-tone-causing equivalents in all contexts.

This table also shows the patterning between plain and palatalized coronal consonants, which forms the basis of Caerimoscnë's highly pervasive palatalization process.

Vowels

	Front		Central	Back
	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i	y	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ø	ə	o
Low	æ		a

All vowels also have long equivalents.