Aracinian language

Aracinian (haraxinizu Harachinizu, lye haraxinizu lie harachinizu) is a Ciánic language spoken in Aracinia.

Writing system

Main article: Aglisic script

As with most languages of Sharrat, Aracinian is written in the Aglisic script. It is composed of 31 base letters, 3 letters using diacritics for phonological purposes, as well as 3 additional diacritic letters for lexical purposes (í, ï and ë, not listed below).

The letters currently used in Aracinian are the following:

a a	k cé	x och	č țé	s sa	n nien	ñ nién
ŋ eng	p pé	t té	þ té mement	c içé	i i	f fé
g gé	dž ḑé	z iza	m mem	b bé	d dé	ð dé mement
o o	ö éo	l lu	r ru	h helios leloes	v vé	u u
ü uï	y iai	e é	é é mitre	ks exa	ps epsa

Aracinian spelling differs significantly from its pronounciation, a case of etymological orthography. Most of these differences are not reflected in the romanization. They are as follows:

• ñ, which normally stands for [ɲ], is pronounced [n] at the end of words (and romanized as ⟨n⟩).
• ŋ is only used word-finally following o and u and before the velar consonants k, x and g; as such, it is often replaced by n. It is romanized as ⟨ng⟩ word-finally and ⟨n⟩ otherwise.
• þ and ð have been almost entirely lost since High Ciána, where they used to be dental fricatives [θ ð]. They have become silent in most environments (where they are romanized as ⟨h⟩), except after consonants and before liquids where they represent stops [t d] (and romanized as ⟨t d⟩) and word-initially before consonants where they represent fricatives [s z] (and romanized as ⟨s z⟩).
• y stands for the semivowel [j] before vowels. In diphthongs, this semivowel is written with i. In both cases it is romanized as ⟨i⟩.
• ks and ps are unusual and rare letters which originate from High Ciána stop-sibilant sequences [ks ps]. The sequence [ks] having been lost in all environments except word-initially (the velar stop leniting into [x], with the sequence thus written xs), ks now only appears in some proper nouns, loan words and learned borrowings. ps is still used, though sometimes written out as two consonants, p's.

Lexicon

Main article: Aracinian language/Dictionary

The majority of Aracinian's vocabulary is derived from High Ciána, with some modern learned borrowings.