Nayelan language

Nayelan was a language spoken in the north of the island of Casea from around 2000 TT to 500 TT. It was a key influence in the development of Standard Weatherplague Caseic. There is some linguistic evidence that Nayelan shares a common ancestor with the Sawaji language spoken in Kelelemi.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal stop	m	n	ɲ
Plosive	p b	t d		k g
Affricate		ts	tɕ
Fricative	f v	z	ʑ
Approximant	w	ɾ l	j	(w)

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a
Diphthongs	iʉ, aʉ

Vowels also have a length distinction

Orthography

Romanisation

This is the orthography used to represent Nayelan on the wiki

Letter	Sound	Notes
a	a
á	aː
au	aʉ
b	b
c	ts
ć	tɕ
d	d
e	e
é	eː
f	f
g	g
i	i
í	iː
iu	iʉ
j	j
k	k
l	l
m	m
n	n
ń	ɲ
o	o
ó	oː
r	ɾ
t	t
u	u
ú	uː
v	v
w	w
z	z
ź	ʑ

Standard Weatherplague Caseic

Many Nayelan words became part of the Standard Weatherplague Caseic lexicon. As they did so, they went through some phonological changes:

• /ɾ/ became /l/ everywhere
• /v/ became /f/ everywhere
• /d/ became /t/ everywhere
• /ts/ became /s/ everywhere
• /z/ became /ʑ/ everywhere
• /ɲ/ became /ʑ/ word-finally, elsewhere it became /n/
• /aʉ/ raised to /eʉ/
• Long vowels typically kept their quality, but short /e/, /a/, and /o/ reduced to /a/