Cerian - Revision history

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	All consonants except voiced fricatives, approximants, {{IPA\|/ʃ/}}, {{IPA\|/tʃ/}} and {{IPA\|/h/}} can be geminated.		All consonants except voiced fricatives, approximants, {{IPA\|/ʃ/}}, {{IPA\|/tʃ/}} and {{IPA\|/h/}} can be geminated.

			{{IPA\|/h/}} is lost in about half of all Evandorian dialects (including all of the most spoken ones, but notably it is preserved in formal Standard Evandorian Cerian) and in virtually all Púrítonen ones; it is generally still found in dialects spoken on other continents.

	===Vowels===		===Vowels===

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	'''Cerian''' — natively '''Čérízon''' {{IPA\|[tʃeːˈriːzon]}} or '''šérošu čérí''' {{IPA\|[ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː]}} — is the main global lingua franca on the planet on [[Verse:Calémere\|Calémere]], particularly in the nations of its Western Bloc, and its second-most spoken language by number of native speakers (after [[Chlouvānem]]). It is an [[Evandorian languages\|Evandorian language]] belonging to the Central Evandorian branch, and one of the direct descendants of one of the two most important Classical language of the Calemerian Western civilization, namely [[Íscégon]].		'''Cerian''' — natively '''Čérízon''' ({{IPA\|[tʃeːˈriːzon]}} (SEC); {{IPA\|[tʃeɪ̯ˈʁiːzon]}} (L. Bénáteno); {{IPA\|[tɕʰeˈriːzɔn]}} (Pásuone)) or '''šérošu čérí''' {{IPA\|[ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː]}} (SEC) — is the main global lingua franca on the planet on [[Verse:Calémere\|Calémere]], particularly in the nations of its Western Bloc, and its second-most spoken language by number of native speakers (after [[Chlouvānem]]). It is an [[Evandorian languages\|Evandorian language]] belonging to the Central Evandorian branch, and one of the direct descendants of one of the two most important Classical language of the Calemerian Western civilization, namely [[Íscégon]].

	Native to the country of Ceria (Cer.: ''Čéría''; Isc.: ''Ciairegiion'') in the western part of Evandor, Cerian is the official language of ten countries in Evandor - Ceria, Šáritun, Vétaní, Čaha, Rocoma, Corevía, Ótéa, Úrofa, Noméde Ínéma, and Sternia (Cer. ''Seténía'' - co-official with Majo-Bankrávian) - and 37 other countries around the planet. It is also a regionally recognized language in the Evandorian countries of Besagret, Helinetia, Ingvensia, Auralia and Nordulic (Cer.: ''Bésói'', ''Helinétía'', ''Envenšía'', ''Órolía'', ''Nódóa''), and in many other countries of the planet, including even a few areas in the northwestern [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition\|Chlouvānem Inquisition]].		Native to the country of Ceria (Cer.: ''Čéría''; Isc.: ''Ciairegiion'') in the western part of Evandor, Cerian is the official language of ten countries in Evandor - Ceria, Šáritun, Vétaní, Čaha, Rocoma, Corevía, Ótéa, Úrofa, Noméde Ínéma, and Sternia (Cer. ''Seténía'' - co-official with Majo-Bankrávian) - and 37 other countries around the planet. It is also a regionally recognized language in the Evandorian countries of Besagret, Helinetia, Ingvensia, Auralia and Nordulic (Cer.: ''Bésói'', ''Helinétía'', ''Envenšía'', ''Órolía'', ''Nódóa''), and in many other countries of the planet, including even a few areas in the northwestern [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition\|Chlouvānem Inquisition]].

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	* Bárogention is the dialect group of the Bárogente valley, west of the West Cerian area; the area corresponds to most of Rocoma, most of Corevía, and western Ótéa.		* Bárogention is the dialect group of the Bárogente valley, west of the West Cerian area; the area corresponds to most of Rocoma, most of Corevía, and western Ótéa.
	* Čátiron - taking its name from the Čátiro region and the Čátiro Strait - is the name of the dialects spoken in the littoral northwest of the West Cerian area, that is, all of Čaga, the northernmost parts of Rocoma, and the Cerian-speaking part of Sternia (Seténía).		* Čátiron - taking its name from the Čátiro region and the Čátiro Strait - is the name of the dialects spoken in the littoral northwest of the West Cerian area, that is, all of Čaga, the northernmost parts of Rocoma, and the Cerian-speaking part of Sternia (Seténía).

			The Márusúturonian dialects are:
			* New Ézélonían Cerian – New Ézélonía is the Cerian-speaking country farthest from others, being located in the northeastern part of Márusúturon and bordering only the Inquisition and Greater Skyrdagor. The majority of the country is sparsely inhabited taiga (and tundra along the coast north of 56ºN), and most inhabitants of those areas are either indigenous peoples or settlers of mining or lodging towns; the majority of the population is found in two areas of the country: the inland Catézo valley and the areas around Fúrion Bay and the Fúrion peninsula at the far southern end of the country; New Ézélonían Cerian dialects - which are the native language of most of the population - are therefore only broadly distinguished into ''catézonen'' and ''fúrionen'', but the differences between them are small. Influences from indigenous languages are very limited, as are those from Chlouvānem or Skyrdagor (the border with Greater Skyrdagor is in the remote taiga, while the Chlouvānem border, while open, is only crossed sporadically in either directions due to the tense relationship between the two countries). New Ézélonían Cerian is the standard dialect officially adopted in the country, but it is not taught in any foreign country.
			* Aréntízon, Répérutonen, and Péránizen are the Cerian variants spoken in the three former Cerian colonies in western Márusúturon, on the southeastern shore of the Carpan Sea, respectively Aréntía, Répéruton, and Péráno – mostly covered by desert, especially Aréntía. Unlike New Ézélonían Cerian, but like Cerian varieties in Védren, Fárásen, and Ovítioná, these varieties of Cerian are spoken mostly as second languages by indigenous speakers, as only small numbers of Cerians of Evandorian origin remain in those countries.
			* Tárošébizen is the name for the Cerian dialect spoken as a first language by Cerians in the former Cerian colony of Tárošébi, today the Chlouvānem diocese of the Tārṣaivai, in the Northwest (not far from the border with Aréntía). Cerians in Tārṣaivai are a small minority (about ten thousand people) consisting of the descendants of those Evandorians that didn't leave the territory after it was taken by the Chlouvānem. Tárošébizen is a divergent dialect as its speakers have had for more than a century very limited contacts with the rest of the Cerian-speaking world, and it is only preserved as the language of a small minority; it has absorbed numerous influences from Chlouvānem, and notably it generally does not share vocabulary related to technology, culture, or science of the last hundred years with other Cerian dialects; Tárošébizen speakers are likely to be familiar only with Standard Evandorian Cerian, as it is the Cerian dialect usually taught as a foreign language in the Inquisition. Despite this, it remains the native vernacular of the Cerian ethnic community of the Inquisition, mostly remaining in Tārṣaivai but sometimes also found in other major cities of the country<ref>The lexical divergence of Tárošébizen from other Cerian dialects is especially noted, in fact, by immigrants to other Chlouvānem cities, where there are small pockets of people from Cerian-speaking countries of the Western world who immigrated to the Inquisition.</ref>.

	==Phonology==		==Phonology==

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 ==External History==
 The name Ceria (and therefore Cerian), as with many major Calémerian, particularly Evandorian, peoples and places, dates back to my first proto-conworlding projects, and I simply imported it into Calémere - something that meant justifying the very-IE-looking ''-ia'' ending in a Calémerian linguistic perspective.<br/>Cerian itself is the main lingua franca of Calémere, a role equivalent to that English has on Earth, and to some extent English is one of my inspiration, although only as far as Cerian, just like English, has a large number of dialects spoken in many countries across the world. Aesthetically, my main inspirations behind Cerian are Latin, Japanese (mostly in the syllable structure), and to a lesser extent also Norwegian and Swedish. Grammatically I wanted a mostly analytic language, even though in the end it is not as analytic as other Evandorian languages (such as [[Nordulaki]], to name one) and with some SAE traits, most notably phonology (even though that lack of a distinction between /r/ and /l/ is not SAE at all), mixed in with a few non-European traits (such as the tense system).
 ==Phonology==

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	Some nouns have completely irregular plurals:		Some nouns have completely irregular plurals:
	* ''účen'' "fish" → ''ússó'' "fish (plur.)" (here, the singular actually derives from the diminutive ''uóscien'', while the plural derives from the plural of the unmodified noun ''uós'')		* ''účen'' "fish" → ''ússó'' "fish (plur.)" (here, the singular actually derives from the diminutive ''uóscien'', while the plural derives from the plural of the unmodified noun ''uós'')
	* ''~~épsis~~'' "person" → ''iúressó'' "people" (completely different roots)		* ''ési'' "person" → ''iúressó'' "people" (completely different roots)

	====Archaic genitive====		====Archaic genitive====

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	===Consonants===		===Consonants===
	The consonant inventory among different Cerian dialects is fairly similar, with the most noticeable exception being Hilly Southeastern Cerian which are the only ones that didn't merge Íscégon /l/ into /r/ (the distinction is still kept everywhere in the spelling - e.g. ''áleron'' "road" /ˈaːreron/ even if 95% of speakers merge them). Many Southern Cerian dialects (incl. e.g. Šáritunen Cerian) also have /dʒ/ instead of /ʒ/, as Old Cerian did.		The consonant inventory among different Cerian dialects is fairly similar, with the most noticeable exception being Hilly Southeastern Cerian (the predominant variant in the country of Úrofa) which are the only ones that didn't merge Íscégon /l/ into /r/ (the distinction is still kept everywhere in the spelling - e.g. ''áleron'' "road" /ˈaːreron/ even if 95% of speakers merge them). Many Southern Cerian dialects (incl. e.g. Šáritunen Cerian) also have /dʒ/ instead of /ʒ/, as Old Cerian did.
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	* ''účen'' "fish" → ''ússó'' "fish (plur.)" (here, the singular actually derives from the diminutive ''uóscien'', while the plural derives from the plural of the unmodified noun ''uós'')		* ''účen'' "fish" → ''ússó'' "fish (plur.)" (here, the singular actually derives from the diminutive ''uóscien'', while the plural derives from the plural of the unmodified noun ''uós'')
	* ''épsis'' "person" → ''iúressó'' "people" (completely different roots)		* ''épsis'' "person" → ''iúressó'' "people" (completely different roots)

			====Archaic genitive====
			Mostly in poetry and some set usages, words not ending in ''-n, -ó'', and ''-ú'' maintain a distinct genitive form, used for the singular. It is formed by adding ''-u'' {{IPA\|[u̯]}} at the end (lengthening ''u o'' instead), except for words in ''-ía'' which lose the ''-a'' instead.

			In contemporary Cerian, it is mostly found in some set usages and locutions, such as ''šérošu čérí'' "Cerian language" (with the genitive of ''Čéría''), ''ronuo dútú'' "blade of the sword" (''dútu'' "blade"), ''requíbača Ašeirau'' "orbit of Ašeira", ''šóben lerió'' "pomegranate juice" (''lerio'' "pomegranate").

	====Gender and articles====		====Gender and articles====

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	\|nativename = Čérízon<br/>šérošu čérí		\|nativename = Čérízon<br/>šérošu čérí
	\|pronunciation = [tʃeːˈriːzon]<br/>[ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː]		\|pronunciation = {{IPA\|[tʃeːˈriːzon]}}<br/>{{IPA\|[ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː]}}
	\|region = Western Evandor (Great Cerian Plain)		\|region = Western Evandor (Great Cerian Plain)
	\|ethnicity = Cerians		\|ethnicity = Cerians
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	'''Cerian''' — natively '''Čérízon''' [tʃeːˈriːzon] or '''šérošu čérí''' [ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː] — is the main global lingua franca on the planet on [[Verse:Calémere\|Calémere]], particularly in the nations of its Western Bloc, and its second-most spoken language by number of native speakers (after [[Chlouvānem]]). It is an [[Evandorian languages\|Evandorian language]] belonging to the Central Evandorian branch, and one of the direct descendants of one of the two most important Classical language of the Calemerian Western civilization, namely [[Íscégon]].		'''Cerian''' — natively '''Čérízon''' {{IPA\|[tʃeːˈriːzon]}} or '''šérošu čérí''' {{IPA\|[ˈʃeːroʃu tʃeːˈriː]}} — is the main global lingua franca on the planet on [[Verse:Calémere\|Calémere]], particularly in the nations of its Western Bloc, and its second-most spoken language by number of native speakers (after [[Chlouvānem]]). It is an [[Evandorian languages\|Evandorian language]] belonging to the Central Evandorian branch, and one of the direct descendants of one of the two most important Classical language of the Calemerian Western civilization, namely [[Íscégon]].

	Native to the country of Ceria (Cer.: ''Čéría''; Isc.: ''Ciairegiion'') in the western part of Evandor, Cerian is the official language of ten countries in Evandor - Ceria, Šáritun, Vétaní, Čaha, Rocoma, Corevía, Ótéa, Úrofa, Noméde Ínéma, and Sternia (Cer. ''Seténía'' - co-official with Majo-Bankrávian) - and 37 other countries around the planet. It is also a regionally recognized language in the Evandorian countries of Besagret, Helinetia, Ingvensia, Auralia and Nordulic (Cer.: ''Bésói'', ''Helinétía'', ''Envenšía'', ''Órolía'', ''Nódóa''), and in many other countries of the planet, including even a few areas in the northwestern [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition\|Chlouvānem Inquisition]].		Native to the country of Ceria (Cer.: ''Čéría''; Isc.: ''Ciairegiion'') in the western part of Evandor, Cerian is the official language of ten countries in Evandor - Ceria, Šáritun, Vétaní, Čaha, Rocoma, Corevía, Ótéa, Úrofa, Noméde Ínéma, and Sternia (Cer. ''Seténía'' - co-official with Majo-Bankrávian) - and 37 other countries around the planet. It is also a regionally recognized language in the Evandorian countries of Besagret, Helinetia, Ingvensia, Auralia and Nordulic (Cer.: ''Bésói'', ''Helinétía'', ''Envenšía'', ''Órolía'', ''Nódóa''), and in many other countries of the planet, including even a few areas in the northwestern [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition\|Chlouvānem Inquisition]].