Kaisen language

Kaisen
žig wezanax
Ethnicity	Kaisens
Native speakers	10 million  (2020)
Language family	Shaelic Milevic South Milevic Kaisen
Writing system	Terminian script
Official status
Official language in	Kaisen
Regulated by	Terminian Institute for the Languages of the East
CWS code	KZE

Kaisen or Kaiseni (žig wezanax [ʑug wɛzanɑx]) is a Milevic language spoken natively by about 10 million speakers, primarily in Kaisen. It is closely related to other Milevic languages such as Farmoshi, Sarkiki and Athsudan, although it shares a particularly close relationship to Czisilian. Since the early 1800s, Kaiseni has been regulated by the Terminian Institute for the Languages of the East, which introduced a uniform standard of spelling and pronunciation.

Classification

Kaisen is a Shaelic language belonging to the South Milevic branch of the Milevic family.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar			Postalveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
			plain	labial	lateral	plain	labial	plain	labial	plain	labial	plain	labial	plain	labial
Nasal	plain	m	n							ŋ
	glottalised	mˀ	nˀ							ŋˀ
Plosive	voiceless		t							k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ	ʔʷ
	voiced	b	d							g	gʷ
	ejective		tʼ	tʷʼ						kʼ	kʷʼ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s		ɬ	ʃ		ɕ	ɕʷ	x	xʷ	χ	χʷ
	voiced	v	z		ɮ	ʒ		ʑ	ʑʷ	ɣ		ʁ	ʁʷ
Affricate	voiceless					tʃ	tʃʷ					qχ	qχʷ
	voiced					dʒ	dʒʷ
Approximant	plain							j	ɥ		w
	glottalised							jˀ	ɥˀ		wˀ
Trill	plain		r
	glottalised		rˀ