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]