Æ

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Æ

• Æ/Lexicon

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Æ (natively jạrq Æ [jɑ̈˨˩˨ˀ ʔe˧˧], lit. 'Æ sound'; in English /ɛ/ eh) is a Trician monosyllabic tonal analytic language inspired by Danish and Vietnamese. It belongs to the Rieng-Chrâtt language family. It is spoken in the country of Tạj Vŭ̃r (lit. the northern land).

Æ used to be written in a native logography, but today it uses an initial-and-rime orthography developed from a fanqie system; the newer orthography is natively named after Lád Ăr Tǻvq, who published a large volume of poetry using the system.

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Morph into Æ

Chè mè trìa khuất phóng lươm,
Áng về xoắt huận trừ đườm đẽo ganh.
Thẫm hường ngơ nghẻ dổi nành,
Nghiểu bêm liệp lặn tỷ thanh dói rừ.

Gib with lots of từ láy: chè mè (m-), đườm đẽo (-eoC), ngơ nghẻ (-eC), liệp lặn (-ănB)

Ýr můj můj (můj mæ̉m)! Mæ̣rq dræ̊̀ blỏv blúq! 'Don't be so greedy! You have enough!'

Diachronics sketch

Old Æ -ång/k -ong/k -ůng/k -> Modern Æ -æ̊m/vq -øm/vq -ym/vq

Broad phonology

Initials

b d bl gl gj g f s fl sl t hj h m n nj ng l lj r v j 0 /p t pl tɬ c k f s fl ɬ ts ç h m n ɲ ŋ l ʎ ʁ v j~z ʔ/

Vowels

Æ has 13 nuclei: i y ŭ u ů e ø o æ æ̊ ă a å /i y ɨ ɨː u e ø o ɛ œ æ æː ɔ/

Finals

-0 -j -v -d -r -n -m -q -jq -vq -dq -rq -nq -mq /-0 -j -w -ð -ɐ̯ -ŋ -wŋ͡m -ʔ -jʔ -wʔ -ðʔ -ɐ̯ʔ -ŋʔ -wŋ͡mʔ/

Origins of finals

• -0 comes from older -0 (tone A), -ʔ (tone B), -h (tone C), -k (tone D)
• -v comes from older -w (tone A), -wʔ (tone B), -f (tone C), -p -wə(final stop) (tone D)
• -j comes from older -j (tone A), -jʔ (tone B), -ç (tone C), -c -jə(final stop) (tone D)
• -d comes from older -ð -l (tone A), -ðʔ -lʔ (tone B), -þ (tone C), -t -ðə(final stop) -lə(final stop) (tone D)
• -r comes from older -r (tone A), -rʔ (tone B), -s (tone C), -q -rə(final stop) (tone D)
• -n from -n -ɲ sometimes -ŋ (add ʔ or final fric as necessary for tones B or C), -nə(final stop) -ɲə(final stop) -ŋə(final stop) (tone D)
• -m from -m sometimes -ŋ (add ʔ or final fric as necessary for tones B or C), -mə(final stop) -ŋə(final stop) (tone D)

(Posttonic syllables after nonresonants are lost without a trace)

Tones

8 tones, 2 of which have stød

Tone box

	A (null/voiced coda)	B (glottal stop coda)	C (fricative coda)	D (voiceless stop coda)
Modal initial	a (Hanoi ngang)	á (Hanoi nonentering sắc)	ả (Hanoi hỏi)	áq (High tone with stød)
Breathy initial	à (Hanoi huyền)	ạ (Saigon nặng)	ã (Hanoi ngã)	ạq (Low tone with stød)

Narrow phonology

Steal from Danish narrow phonology as much as possible

Initials

Initials are close to their broad transcriptions in Standard Æ.

One major dialect has r- = (true pharyngeal) [ħ], Cr = [Cʰ]

Rimes with no -r- medial

		Nucleus
		/æː/	/æ/	/ɛ/	/œ/	/ɔ/	/e/	/ø/	/o/	/i/	/y/	/u/	/ɨː/	/ɨ/
Coda	/0/	[ɛː] a	-	[eː] æ	[œ̝ː] æ̊	[ɔ̽ː] å	[e̝ː] e	[øː] ø	[o̝ː] o	[iː] i	[yː] y	[uː] ů	[ɨː] u	-
	/j(ʔ)/	[ɛːj] aj	[ɑ̈j] ăj	-	-	[ɒ̽ːj] åj	-	-	[oːj] oj	-	-	[uːj] ůj	[ɨːj] uj	[əj] ŭj
	/w(ʔ)/	[ɛːw] av	[æw] ăv	[eːw] æv	[œːw] æ̊v	[ɔ̽ːw] åv	[e̝ːw] ev	[øːw] øv	-	[iːw] iv	[yːw] yv	-	[ɨːw] uv	[əw] ŭv
	/ð(ʔ)/	[ɛːð̠˕ˠ] ad	[æð̠˕ˠ] ăd	[eːð̠˕ˠ] æd	[œ̝ːð̠˕ˠ] æ̊d	[ɔ̽ːð̠˕ˠ] åd	[e̝ːð̠˕ˠ] ed	[øːð̠˕ˠ] ød	[o̝ːð̠˕ˠ] od	[iːð̠˕ˠ] id	[yːð̠˕ˠ] yd	[uːð̠˕ˠ] ůd	[ð̩˕˗ˠː] ud	[əð̠˕ˠ] ŭd
	/ɐ̯(ʔ)/	[ɑ̈ː] ar	[ɑ̈ː] ăr	[eːɒ̯̽] ær	[œːɒ̯̽] æ̊r	[ɒ̝ː] år	[e̝ːɒ̯̽] er	[øːɒ̯̽] ør	[o̝ːɒ̯̽] or	[iːɒ̯̽] ir	[yːɒ̯̽] yr	[uːɒ̯̽] ůr	[ɨːɒ̯̽] ur	[əɒ̯̽] ŭr
	/ŋ(ʔ)/	[ɛ̃ː] an	[ãː] ăn
	/ŋ͡m(ʔ)/	[ɛ̃ːw̃~ɛːw̃] am	[æ̃w̃~æw̃] ăm
	/ʔ/	[ɛːʔ] aˀ	[æʔ] ăˀ

Grammar

Polar questions

Yes-no questions either use the A-not-A form or put the appropriate negative word at the end.

Mæ̣rq húd med blảj Æ? / Mæ̣rq húd blảj Æ med?

2 COP NEG.COP human Æ / 2 COP human Æ NEG.COP

Are you Æ?

Poetry

Lục bát (with the same rules as in Vietnamese lục bát) is the most common poetic form