Kutic

Kutic
ḍuq'ap'al
Pronunciation	[ɖuq.ʔɐp.ʔɐɫ]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2023
Setting	Radael
Native to	Irguşta Region, Moshurian Empire
Native speakers	40,000 (400 UH)
Language family	language isolate Kutic
Early forms	Various indigenous languages Middle Kutic
Standard form	Central Kutic
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Moshurian Empire
Regulated by	Kutic Congress(Itupulõ Gũmni)

Kutic(endonym: ḍuq'ap'al; Kutic: [ɖuq.ʔɐp.ʔɐɫ) is a language isolate spoken by the nomadic Kutic people. Their exonym comes from the Ildan word for them, kutinki. In Maranz, the diphthong /ŋk/ became /ʔk/, leading to a sound changed kutikkir, which was borrowed by Moshurian and became Kutic.

Phonology

Prosody

Stress

In Kutic, stress is placed on the antepenultimate(third-before-last) syllable. For example in the word miquj'la("oak wood", Kutic: [ˈmiˌqud͡ʑ.lɐ]), stress is placed on mi-.

Phonotactics

In Kutic, two consonants of the same category can not be placed together, for example two fricatives, such as /s/ and /z/, or two plosives, such as /q/ and /g/, would not be consecutively combinable, although an alternating pattern of said consonants, such as /sqzg/, would be theoretically possible.

However, this pattern does not apply to vowels, where instead open, near-open and open-mid vowels can not be pronounced in an alternating fashion with close, near-close and close-mid vowels, although there are no restrictions on horizontal dimensions, so for example diphthongs such as /aɔ/ or /æɒ/ would be entirely possible.

Mid vowels do not appear in Kutic, although in other Ebró languages which have similar phonotactic rules mid vowels are freely combinable with any other non-mid vowel.