Mosici

Mosici (autonym: an-mosécéc ila an’Mosécéc ila /ãmosikik ela/) is a Nyelavi language spoken in the Federation of the Eastern Isles.

Phonology

Mosici has the following vowels, all of which can be long and/or nasalised for a total of 36

	Front	Back
Close	i y	u
Close-Mid	e ø	o
Open-Mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

And the following consonants

	Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Dorsal
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p	t		k
Fricative	ɸ β	s z	ɕ ʑ	ʀ
Liquid	w	l	j	(w)

[b d g] are found as allophones of /p t k/ when next to a phonemically voiced consonant.

The syllable structure is (C)³V(C)³ with a maximal C⁵ word-internal cluster. Vowel hiatus is not permitted.

Vowel Coalescence

Would be vowel hiatuses are resolved by vowel coalescence. Coalescence happens from both ends of the vowel cluster at the same times (the starting side taking priority), with the following rules:

• If any of the two coalescing vowels is long, the resulting vowel is long;
• If the first vowel is nasal, no coalescence happens, instead a /n/ is inserted (restart the coalescence process from zero on both sides after inserting the /n/);
• If the second vowel is nasal, the resulting vowel is nasal;
• Repeat until all hiatuses have been resolved.

Second → ↓ First	i	y	u	e	ø	o	ɛ	ɔ	a
i	ji	jy	ju	je	jø	jo	jɛ	jɔ	ja
y	i	y	y	ø	y	ø	ø	ø	ø
u	wi	y	u	we	wø	wo	wɛ	wɔ	wa
e	i	ø	ø	i	e	ø	e	ø	ɛ
ø	y	y	y	e	y	ø	e	ø	ø
o	ø	ø	u	ø	ø	u	ø	o	ɔ
ɛ	i	ø	ø	i	e	ø	e	ø	ɛ
ɔ	ø	ø	o	ø	ø	o	ø	ɔ	ɔ
a	e	ø	o	ɛ	ɛ	ɔ	a	ɔ	ɔ

Vocabulary

See Category:Mosici Lemmas