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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===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Consonant phonemes
|-
! 
! colspan="2" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Coronal consonant|Coronal]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Dorsal consonant|Dorsal]]
|-
! [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]]
|-
! [[w:stop consonant|Stop]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced palato-alveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar stop|ɡ]]
|-
! [[w:fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless labiodental fricative|f]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced labiodental fricative|v]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless dental fricative|θ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced dental fricative|ð]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless glottal fricative|h]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
|-
! [[w:sibilant consonant|Sibilant]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant|s]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar sibilant|z]] 
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless palato-alveolar fricative|ʃ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced palato-alveolar fricative|ʒ]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
|-
! [[w:Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced labiovelar approximant|w]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced palatal approximant|j]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
|-
! [[w:Rhotic|Rhotic]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|}

===Alphabet===

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 50em; text-align: center; border-collapse:collapse;"θ
! colspan="100%" | Letters of the Ceticilian alphabet
|-
| Aa || Áá || Bb || Cc || Čč || Dd || Ðð || Ee || Éé || Ëë || Ff || Gg || Hh || Ii || Íí || Jj || Kk || Ll || Mm || Nn || Ŋŋ || Ňň || Oo || Óó || Pp || Qq || Rr || Ss || Šš || Tt || Þþ || Uu || Úú || Vv || Ww || Xx || Yy || Zz || Žž 
|-
| ä || ɑː || b || t͡s~k || t͡ʃ || d || ð || ɛ || ɛɪ || ə || f || ɡ || h~x || ɪ || iː || d͡ʒ || k || l || m || n || ŋ || ɲ || ɔ || ɔʊ || p || kw || r || s || ʃ || t || θ || ʊ || uː || v || w || ks || j || z || ʒ
|}

===Vowels===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Vowel phonemes
! !! colspan="3" | Short !! colspan="2" | Long
|-
!
! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] !! [[w:Central vowel|Cent.]] !! [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] !! [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[w:Close vowel|Close]]
| ɪ || || ʊ ||  iː || uː
|-
! [[w:Mid vowel|Mid]]
| ɛ || ə || ɔ || ɛɪ || ɔʊ
|-
! [[w:Open vowel|Open]]
| colspan="3" | ä || ai || ɑː
|}

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==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.

==Grammar==

===Pronouns===
Because of polypersonal agreement in Cet, pronouns are seldom needed in written form.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! !! Singular !! Plural
|-
! 1st
| men
| më
|-
! 2nd
| sen
| së
|-
! 3rd
| on(æ/ë)
| në
|-
! 4th
| ol(æ/ë) || lë 
|-
! 1st + 2nd
| colspan="100%" | mes
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! !! Singular !! Plural
|-
! 1st
| -ë
| -ën
|-
! 2nd
| -æ
| -æn
|-
! 3rd
| -
| -n
|-
! 4th
| -t
| -ton/ten
|-
! 1/2
| colspan="2" | -r
|}

===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 endings marked in '''bold''' are required to replace the vowel of the root words with their own in case that word ends in a vowel sound.<br>
Case endings with a () around a vowel may have that vowel omitted if easily pronounceable.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center";
|+ 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 || colspan="2"| '''-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
|}

Most of these cases can also act as verbs by adding a personal pronoun suffix. For example: "I sit down" can be rendered as "síttë" (seat + to + 1st person singular).

===Tenses===
In their most basic form, the tenses of Ceticilian Cet are derived from noun cases regarding motion to and from. On top of the basic tenses there are a few grammatical aspects specifying how verbs act over time.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Tense-Aspect pairs
|-
! || Past || Present || Future
|-
! Simple
| -ex/-ox 
| -
| -(e)t/(o)t
|-
! Progressive
| -eŋx/oŋx
| -ŋ-
| -teŋ/toŋ
|-
! Habitual
| -z
| -h-
| -het/hot
|}

===Mood===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Mood affixes
|-
! Name || Affix || Meaning
|-
! colspan="100%" | Realis
|-
| Indicative || - || Reality as perceived
|-
| Gnomic || -a || Aphorisms
|-
| Evidential sensory || -s || Seen or heard firsthand
|- 
| Inferential || -h || Heard
|-
! colspan="100%" | Irrealis
|-
| Hortative || l(e)/l(o)- || Encouragement
|-
| Jussive || h(e)/h(o)- || Command
|- 
| Permissive || m(e)/m(o)- || Permission
|-
| Dynamic || k(e)/k(o)- || Ability
|}

==Example texts==

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Caption text
|-
! Fársa !! ðat !! skínæ !! hehælg !! namæs !! hakom !! kingia !! hewilæs !! erþen !! as !! skín !! hoj !! mët !! dag bródëns !! a !! klæ !! šuldëns !! as !! klæën !! ðat !! mëm !! šuldom !! a !! haloktot më !! ðó !! ílex më !! as !! sens !! kingia, macht, pracht !! altíd !! Amín
|-
| O! Our parent || that (is) || in sky || may holy (be) || your name || may come || kingdom || may your will (act) || on Earth || as || in sky || today || to us (excl.) || daily; our bread || (linking) || clear || our blame || as || we clear || that || with us || with blame || (linking) || may (you) not into temptation lead us || though || keep ill away from us || as || yours || the kingdom, might, glory || always || Amen
|}

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