Nesekara
Introduction
Nesekara is a language spoken by the people in the town of Nezoretzi, or Java in Georgian. [ჯავა, Незъорэци] It has been directly proven by several linguists that Nesekara is directly related to Basque, spoken in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
Goals - Full Grammar, Lexicon, Etc.
Setting - Java (Nezoretzi), South Ossetia
Inspiration - Basque
Phonology
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Orthography
There are 3 main orthographies used by Neskara: Georgian, Cyrillic, and Latin. The Georgian script is the most commonly used script to transcribe Neskara.
Consonants
/m/ <m, м, მ> /n/ <n, н, ნ>
/p/ <p, п, პ> /t/ <t, т, ტ> /k/ <k, к, კ>
/s̺/ <s, с, ზ> /s̻/ <z, s, ს> /ʃ/ <x, ш, შ>
/f/ <f, ф, ვ> /θ/ <d, х, ხ>
/w/ <w, в, ფ> /l/ <l, л, ლ> /j/ <y, ь, ღ>
/ɾ/ <r, р, რ>
Vowels
There are 5 vowels in Nesekara. Due to aerial features by Georgian, the /e/ and /o/ have drifted to /ɛ/ and /ɔ̝/ respectively.
/i/ <i, и>
/u/ <u, у>
/ɛ/ <e, e>
/ɔ̝/ <o, o>
/æ/ <a, a>
Length is not contrastive.
Prosody
Stress
Stress almost universally occurs on the last syllable. Stress is usually not contrastive, except for the words Xeke [ʃeˈ.ke] (car) and Xeke ['ʃe.ke] Check.
Accent
Intonation occurs via pitch-promenance, i.e the pitch of the stressed syllable is different than the syllables surrounding it. The stressed syllable is always somewhat higher than others syllables