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===Stress, rhythm and intonation===
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Xanian is a highly stressed language, with emphasize on the first or second syllables of a short word, or first to middle syllables of a longer word, typically regarded as the norm.  The stress on words with Xanian is often considered similar to the stressing of words in the English and Latin, though Xanian words will have circumflex marks to indicate when stress on a particular syllable is required, much as with the accents in Latin and Romance languages. With regards to rhythm, Xanian is a stress-timed language, with stressed and unstressed syllables carrying equal weight in a word though the stressed portion may be shorter than the unstressed portion in letter length, but longer when voiced.
 
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===Stress, rhythm and intonation===
Xanian is a highly stressed language, with emphasize on the first or second syllables of a short word, or first to middle syllables of a longer word, typically regarded as the norm.  The stress on words with Xanian is often considered similar to the stressing of words in the English and Latin, though Xanian words will have circumflex marks to indicate when stress on a particular syllable is required, much as with the accents in Latin and Romance languages. With regards to rhythm, Xanian is a stress-timed language, with stressed and unstressed syllables carrying equal weight in a word though the stressed portion may be shorter than the unstressed portion in letter length, but longer when voiced.


==Grammar==
==Grammar==

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Xanian
Xâkömari
Xâkömari.svg
Xâkömari
Pronunciation[/ʒakømɑrɪ/]
Created by
Native toXania
Native speakers52.7 million
334,656 overseas (2014)
Xanic
  • Xanian
Standard form
Official status
Official language in
Xania
Regulated byImperial Xanian Linguistics Institute
Language codes
ISO 639-1xa
ISO 639-2xan
ISO 639-3xan
Location of nations where Xanian is a spoken language
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Xanian (Xâkömari, /ʒakømɑrɪ/) is a North Atlantic language spoken by 53 million people, and the official language of Xania. It is a member of the Xanic language family, and largely regarded as a language isolate, the second largest of its type in the world after Korean. For centuries, the Xanian language has remained distinct and separate from the rest of the languages around it, with little influence on the language until Xania's emergence into the world community in the late-1800s. Virtually nothing is known of the language's prehistory, and all information on when it first appeared in Xania exists, leaving many to speculate that the language arrived with its current inhabitants, the Xanians.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes
Bilabial Labio-
dental
Alveolar Post-
alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop t d k
Affricate
Fricative v s z ʃ ʒ h
Approximant
(Lateral)
j
ɹ l

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Back
Close [i]
Near-close [ɪ]
Close-mid [ø]
Mid [e] [o]
Near-open [ɐ]
Open [a] [ɑ]

Alphabet

Xanian alphabet
A a  â D d E e H h I i Ī  ī J j K k L l M m
[a] [ɐ] [d] [e] [h] [i] [ɪ] [dʒ] [k] [l] [m]
N n O o Ö ö R r S s Š š T t V v X x Y y Z z
[n] [o] [ø] [ɹ] [s] [ʃ] [t] [v] [ʒ] [j] [z]

Stress, rhythm and intonation

Xanian is a highly stressed language, with emphasize on the first or second syllables of a short word, or first to middle syllables of a longer word, typically regarded as the norm. The stress on words with Xanian is often considered similar to the stressing of words in the English and Latin, though Xanian words will have circumflex marks to indicate when stress on a particular syllable is required, much as with the accents in Latin and Romance languages. With regards to rhythm, Xanian is a stress-timed language, with stressed and unstressed syllables carrying equal weight in a word though the stressed portion may be shorter than the unstressed portion in letter length, but longer when voiced.

Grammar

Vocabulary

Writing system

Study by non-native speakers