User:Ceige/Ceuja

Ceutch language
Léban Goceuja, Ceuja
Pronunciation	[/ˈleβan goˈθeuxa, ˈθeuxa/]
Created by	Ceige
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Ceutch language
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic

Ceuja, or the Ceutch language, (also known as Thutch; Léban Goceuja and Ceuja in Ceuja itself) is a Germanic language best characterised as Proto-Germanic with Spanish sound changes (via relevant Western Romance and Iberian sound changes) applied.

Phonology

The phonology of Ceuja is not unlike that of a somewhat artificial and sanitised form of European Spanish. For more context, see Spanish phonology on Wikipedia.

Debuccalisation

The main changes concern the voiced fricatives and /ʝ/.

In Modern Spanish dialects, the voiced fricatives are often pronounced debuccalised between vowels and other voiced sounds. In addition, ⟨y ~ ll⟩ (from *j and *lj respectively, now /ʝ/) is pronounced more closed. In practice, this results in ⟨b, d, g, ll~y⟩ all having similar phonation.

In Ceuja, the voiced fricatives and ⟨y ~ ll⟩ are all generally pronounced as actual voiced fricatives in the medial position. More debuccalised pronunciations are allowed, but not considered necessary for sounding "native".

Phonemes	Cueja initially	Ceuja medially	Ceuja devoiced	Spanish equivalents
b	b	β	f	b β̞ ɸ̞
d	d̪	ð	θ	d̪ ð̞ θ̞
g	g	ɣ	x	g ɣ̞ x̞
y, ll	(d)ʒ	ʒ	ʃ	ɟʝ ʝ̞ *ç̞

This trend against debuccalisation can be seen in the treatment of fricatives before plosives, with many modern Spanish dialects debuccalising these fricatives to a breathy sound, something not as common in Ceuja (but still acceptable).