Bircena
Background
Bircena is a language spoken on the planet Halonia, in the north of the country Viržura, by both humans and the dominant sentient machines on the planet, the aureli.
It is an a priori language with some loose inspiration from Russian phonology.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ń | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | p b | t d | č ǰ | c j | k g | q ğ | |
| Fricative | v | s z | š ž | ś ź | x | x̌ | h |
| Approximant | l | r | y | ɫ | w |
/č/ and /ǰ/ represent postalveolar affricates, not plosives, but they behave phonologically as plosives, whereas forms with accute accents represent palatalized consonants, rather than true palatals.
Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i [i] | ÿ [y] | u [u] | ||
| Near-close | ï [ɪ] | ü [ʊ] | |||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | é [e] | ö [əʷ] | o [o] | ||
| Open-mid | e [ɛ] | ||||
| Near-open | ä [ä] | ||||
| Open | a [æ] | à [ɑʷ] |