Old Yaraji

Old Yaraji
ايظݣݣي
Pronunciation	[ˈʔjərˤgəd͡ʒiː]
Created by	Dillon
Date	2022
Setting	Morocco
Language family	Indo-European Mishic Artonian Old Yaraji
Writing system	Arabic

Old Yaraji /ˈjɑrəd͡ʒi/ (Old Yaraji: ايظݣݣي [ˈʔjərˤgəd͡ʒiː]) is an Artonian language spoken in northwestern Morocco.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Palatal		Dorsal				Glottal
							plain		lab.
Nasal	m		n
Stop		b	t	d	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	k (qː)	g (ɢ)	kʷ	gʷ	ʔ
Fricative	f	β	s (t͡s)	z	ʃ		(xː)	ɣ	xʷ		h	(ʕ)
Approximant			l	lˤ	j (ɟː)				w
Trill			r	rˤ

• /ɣ/ is is in free variation between [ɣ~ʕ~ɢ], but [ʕ] and [ɢ] are more common before /a,aː/.
• /sː,ɣː,jː/ are realized as [sː~t͡s,ɟː,xː~qː].

Vowels

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Mid	eː	ə
Low		a aː

Prosody

Old Yaraji stress is initial.

Phonotactics

Old Yaraji maximal syllables are CCVCCC.

Syntax

Old Yaraji word order is strictly VSO.

Example texts

Surah Al-Fatihah 1:1-7

ان امنط الله اصهمان اصمطي
ط مضينص د الله ارب دنينص
اصهمان اصمطي
ملك جيي برطه
بنهمر چ ايك فرچمه يبتن چ
دكس كصي بليد ازكطي
ازكطيكوي يه انعمف كون ي اهييصه كزنط كويض ۋكون

ʔin ʔemmnit ʔaḷḷāh ʔeṛahmān ʔeṛahmatī.
Ti meḷaynuṛ de ʔaḷḷāh ʔerabb dunynuṛ
ʔeṛahmān ʔeṛahmatī
Maliki jēy bratuh.
Benhamer Če ʔēk ferččemeh yebassni Če.
Duks kuṛē de Blēdi ʔezektī.
ʔezektīkʷē yeh ʔanɣamef kʷin yye ʔihēyeṛeh kezenti kʷēṛ vekʷin.

Other resources

• Yaraji/Swadesh