Xanian

Xanian
Xâkömari
Xâkömari
Pronunciation	[/ʒakømɑrɪ/]
Created by	–
Native to	Xania
Native speakers	5.2 million 334,656 overseas (2014)
Language family	Xanic Xanian
Standard form	Imperial Xanian Standard
Official status
Official language in	Xania
Language codes
ISO 639-1	xa
ISO 639-2	xan
ISO 639-3	xan
File:Xanian speaking world.svg Location of nations where Xanian is a spoken language

Xanian (Xâkömari, /ʒakømɑrɪ/) is a North Atlantic language spoken by 5.6 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							tʃ	dʒ
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]

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.

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]