Caseic language

Caseic is the most common language of the Caseic Archipelago. It is subdivided into three dialects: the Southern Dialect, which is considered standard in the Caseic Federation; the Northern Dialect, which is considered standard in the Greater Nayela Union and Prefichi; and the Esiga Dialect, which is considered standard in Esiga.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal stop	m	n
Plosive	p b	t	k g
Affricate		t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
Fricative	f	s
Approximant	w~ɥ	ɹ	j (w~ɥ)

Vowels

	Front	Central
Close	i	ʉ
Mid	e~ɛ	ɞ~ə
Open	a
Diphthongs	ae, œy, ei

Orthography

Romanisation

This is the orthography used to represent Caseic on this wiki.

Romanisation

Letter	Sound	Notes
a	a
ae	ae~aj
ai	øy
b	b
br	bɹ
bw	bˠw
c	k
ch	t͡ʃ
cr	kɹ
cy	kj
e	ɛ
ei	ei~ej
f	f
g	g
gr	gɹ
gy	gj
h	h	Only used in transcriptions of Esiga Caseic
i	i~y
j	d͡ʒ
l	l	Only appears in Northern and Esiga dialects
m	m
n	n
o	o
p	p
pr	pɹ
r	ɹ
s	s
sw	sw
t	t
u	ʉ
w	w~ɥ
y	j

With respect to sounds, tildes indicate phonetic variation, e.g. ⟨w⟩ is realised as /w/ before ⟨a⟩ or ⟨o⟩ but as /ɥ/ before ⟨i⟩.

Hyphens are used to indicate separate components in compound nouns, e.g. Ibe-Jibin ("Jibin city"), or to indicate broken diphthongs, e.g. naje-in ("eatery"). Apostrophes indicate clitic forms of pronouns.

Grammar

Nouns

Nouns have case and number indicated by particles. Different particles are used for common and proper nouns.

Common nouns

Case	Singular	Plural	Mass
Ergative	framoc	framoc cya	framoc am
Absolutive	ac framoc	ac framoc cya	ac framoc acha
Genitive	sa framoc	sa framoc am	sa framoc am
Dative	cri framoc	cri framoc acha	cri framoc acha

Proper nouns

Case	Singular/Mass	Plural
Ergative	Casi	Casi am
Absolutive	cai Casi	uc Casi acha
Genitive	sa Casi	sa Casi am
Dative	cra Casi	cori Casi cya

Particle combination

Where two particles would be adjacent, they are typically combined.

*Churog cya ac sweri acha panameri.

→ Churog cyac sweri acha panameri.

"The churgs eat some mushrooms"