Ceticilian Cet

Ceticilian Cet is a variant of Cet specifically developed for and maintained by a community called Ceticilia. It is supposed to be a compact, fairly logical and culturally important language to be used in Ceticilia for both cultural and procedural issues. Its vocabulary is mostly derived from West Germanic roots, with a few loanwords from Turkish, Arabic, Hungarian and grammar inspired mostly by that of Hungarian and Turkish.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial		Coronal		Palatal		Dorsal
Nasal		m		n		ɲ		ŋ
Stop	p	b	t	d	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	k	ɡ
Fricative	f	v	θ	ð			h
Sibilant			s	z	ʃ	ʒ
Approximant		w		l		j
Rhotic				r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Short			Long
	Front	Cent.	Back	Front	Back
Close	ɪ		ʊ	iː	uː
Mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ	ɛɪ	ɔʊ
Open	ä			ai	ɑː

Morphology

Ceticilian Cet's morphology is highly agglutinative, rendering smooth transitions between adjectives, nouns and verbs. Parts of speech may take on each other's role by affixation and word order.

Syntax

Constituent order

The most basic word order of Ceticilian Cet is Subject-Predicate-Object. Unlike English, the word order remains in questions and most relative clauses. Pronouns may be omitted in both subject and object position, if permitted by redundancy in the predicate.

Cases

Case suffixes

Case	Front	Back	Meaning
Nominative	-	-	Subject
Accusative	-	-	Direct object
Genitive	-(e)s	-(o)s	Possessor, Relation
Instrumental	-(e)m	-(o)m	Using
Vocative	-a		Calling a name
Dative	-(e)t	-(o)t	Recipient, Direction to
Ablative	-ex	-ox	Sender, Direction from
Adessive	-é	-ó	By something or someone
Perlative	-í	-ú	Through something, Via
Locative	-(e)n	-(o)n	In something, on something