Syzkyn

Syzkyn
сызқынҟы мол / სჷზქჷნყჷ მოლ syzkynqy mol
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ˈsɘzˌkʰʲəɴ.qʹə mɔɫ]]
Created by	rnifnuf
Date	2017-
Native to	Russia, Georgia, Turkey, with small diaspora
Ethnicity	Syzkyn
Native speakers	Approximately 400,000 (2021)
Language family	Indo-European North Germanic East Scandinavian? Syzkyn
Early form	Old Norse
Official status
Official language in	Russia Syzkyn Republic
Recognised minority language in	Jordan Turkey Israel

Syzkyn is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in the Syzkyn Republic, a Federal Subject of the Russian Federation located in the western Caucasus. It is the native language of the Syzkyn people, who are thought to be the only descents of the Scandinavian Rus' people who were not fully assimilated.

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Phonology

Syzkyn's phonological inventory is strongly reminiscent of Kartvelian languages, particularly Mingrelian.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		[ŋ]1	[ɴ]2
Plosive	Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	kʰ~kʲʰ
	Voiced	b	d	g~gʲ
	Ejective	pʹ	tʹ	kʹ~kʲʹ		qʹ	(ʔ)
Affricate	Aspirated		ʦʰ	ʧʰ		[qχʰ]3
	Voiced		ʣ	ʤ		[ɢʁ]3
	Ejective		ʦʹ	ʧʹ
Fricative	Voiceless	f	s	ʃ	x~χ		ħ~h
	Voiced	v~ʋ4	z	ʒ	ɣ~ʁ
Approximant			l	j
Rhotic			r~ɾ

1. Allophone of /n/ before velars
2. Allophone of /n/ before uvulars
3. [qχʰ] and [ɢʁ] are realizations of /χ/ and /ʁ/ after nasals
4. The fricative [v] and approximant [ʋ] are in free variation
   1. [ʋ] is the most prevalent realization after a vowel
   2. /v/ is realized as [ʷ] after a consonant

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ~ə1	u
Mid	e~ɛ		o~ɔ
Open		a~ɑ2

1. /ə/ has several allophones:
   1. [ɘ] or [ɨ] when stressed and not following a labialized or palatalized consonant
   2. [ɪ] after a palatalized velar (in dialects that palatalize the velar stops) or /j/
   3. [ʊ] after a labialized consonant
2. Typically reduced to [ɐ] when unstressed

Prosody

In Syzkyn, stress can be located on any syllable in a word. Typically, in words of Norse origin, primary stress is on the first syllable, often occurring on other syllables in words of non-Norse origin. However, stress remains on the same syllable in all inflected forms.