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 Nesekara.

Cyrillic || a A п П т Т к К e E ф Ф с С s S

Georgian || ე პ ტ კ ე ვ ზ ს

Latin || A a p P t T k K e E f F s S z Z

IPA || [a] [p] [t] [k] [ɛ] [f] [s̺] [s̻]

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, ი>

/u/ <u, у, უ>

/ɛ/ <e, e, ე>

/ɔ̝/ <o, o, ო>

/æ/ <a, a, ა>

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 nonstressed syllables.