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Dezaking
New Cobenan
Dèsanika
Pronunciation/d̪ɛs̟ɑ̃n̪iqɑ/
Language family
Madim
  • Dezaking
DialectsCobenan, Miroz, Evanese
Writing systemMadim Script
Official status
Official language inRovenia
CWS codeNCO

Background

Dezaking (formerly called New Cobenan) started as a language on Dezaking Island in southern modern-day Rovenia. Three different countries claimed Dezaking Island as theirs, and a language evolved from those three languages called "Dèsanika" (Dezaking Language). When Rovenia formed from those three countries, Dezaking was chosen to be the official language.

There is no background for Dezaking to be called "New Cobenan" anymore because it changed. The only reason it's still called that is because it was called that for so long, it's hard to change.


Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-dental Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal Other
Nasal m n ɲ ɴ
Plosive p b t d c ɟ q ɢ ʔ
Fricative f v θ ð s̟ z̟ χ ɕ ʑ
Approximant ʋ j ɰ w ɥ
Lateral l χ͡l̪̊

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close i y ĩ ỹ ɯ u ɯ̃ ũ
Near-close ɪ ʏ ɪ̃ ʏ̃
Close-mid e ø ẽ ø̃ ɤ o ɤ̃ õ
Mid ə ə̃
Open-mid ɛ œ ɛ̃ œ̃
Near-open æ ɶ æ̃ ɶ̃
Open ɑ ɒ ɑ̃ ɒ̃

Phonotactics

Dezaking has a syllable structure of (C)V(N), unless it's the last syllable of a word, then it's (C)V(N)(C). All nasals nasalize the previous vowel, and isn't pronounced unless the next letter is a vowel. So, "An" is /ɒ̃/ while "Ana" is /ɒ̃n̪ɒ/. At the end of a word, consonants are silent unless the first letter of the next word is a vowel or it's the end of a sentence (which in this case, it's always devoiced).

Orthography

a - /ɒ/ or /ɑ/ à - /æ/ or /ɶ/ b - /b/ c - /c/ d - /d̪/ e - /e/ or /ø/ è - /ɛ/ or /œ/ f - /f/ g - /g/ h - /ʔ/ i - /i/ or /y/ ì - /ɪ/ or /ʏ/ j - /ɟ/ k - /q/ l - /l̪/ ł - /χ͡l̪̊/ m - /m/ n - /n̪/ ñ - /ɲ/ ń - /ɴ/ o - /u/ or /ɯ/ ò - /o/ or /ɤ/ p - /p/ r - /ʋ/ s - /s̟/ ś - /θ/ or /ɬ/ š - /ɕ/ t - /t̪/ u - /ə/ v - /v/ x - /χ/ z - /z̟/ ź - /ð/ or /ɮ/ ž - /ʑ/

Grammar

Morphology

Dezaking has 4 cases: Adessive, Inessive, Locative, and Genitive. They each have two forms depending if the noun is definite or indefinite.

Indefinite Definite
No case R- No prefix
Adessive K- G-
Inessive P- B-
Locative L- Ł-
Genitive C- J-

Syntax

The word order of Dezaking is OSV.