Poccasin English

Poccasin English
Cassinglish
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2025
Setting	Adventures in the Poccasins
Native to	Poccasin Archipelago
Ethnicity	Poccasins
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Poccasin English
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic Proto-English Old English Middle English Early Modern English Modern English
Writing system	Latin

Poccasin English is a variety of the English language native to the Poccasin Archipelago and Poccasin Federation. Today, it is primarily spoken by upper-class urbanites in Cassim Po, the capital of the Poccasin Federation, and is commonly considered the international trade language of the Federation alongside the English creole language Bemé.

Poccasin English is typically considered the most prestigious or mesolectal language in the Poccasins, as it is commonly associated with the upper classes in the Federation. As such, although stable, there are actually very few monolingual speakers of Poccasin English; most speakers of Poccasin English are usually bilingual with Bemé and incorporate a creole continuum in their speech that goes beyond the traditional tak and kriyal distinction in Bemé.

Poccasin English generally follows British spelling conventions, though more recent loanwords from American English may retain their American spelling, so "colour/color" is spelt as in British English, colour, but "person of color/person of colour" is spelt as in American English, person of color, because the term is chiefly used in the US. However, various degrees of eye dialect spellings are also common.

Poccasin English also features a rather unique phonology, such as a full trap-strut merger as well as the loss of a /v/ phoneme (merging into /b/), and unique vocabulary derived primarily from Bemé and other indigenous language of the Poccasin Archipelago.

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs (short)

	Front	Central	Back
Close	(i)		u
Mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Open		a