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[[Cagasa/Lexicon|Lexicon]]
#redirect [[Kagasa]]
 
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''Schargasser''; pronounced [kagasa]) is a divergent [[Wiebian]] lect spoken in Cagasazumi (''Schargassersümme''). A word in the Kagasa orthography can represent either its native reading or its Old Cuatham reading. Kagasa aesthetics is inspired by Japanese, Bantu and [[Clofabosin]].
 
*V:C > VnC
*öCe > oCi
*üCe > uCi
*-er > -a, -el > -o
 
Numbers:
*1: wahm - native [vamma]; Kurmo-Kagasa [ham]
*2: disser - native [ditsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tʁei]
*3: narg - native [nagga]; Kurmo-Kagasa [jaki]
*4: đauf - native [ɖoː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [dʁa]
*5: säles - native [selli]; Kurmo-Kagasa [zem]
*6: stuhm - native [tummu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [tam]
*7: rut - native [uttu]; Kurmo-Kagasa [latu]
*8: lerz - native [letsa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [lja]
*9: pfarb - native [fappa]; Kurmo-Kagasa [pʁapu]
*10: kier - native [keː]; Kurmo-Kagasa [kʁa]
 
==Phonology==
Kagasa is a mora-timed language like Japanese.
===Consonants===
 
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 500px; text-align:center;"
|+ '''{{PAGENAME}} consonants'''
! colspan="2" |
!  |Labial
!  |Alveolar
!  |Retroflex
!  |Dorsal
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
| '''n''' /n/
| [ɳ]
| [ŋ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p/
| '''t''' /t/
| '''ṭ''' /ʈ/
| '''c, k''' /k/
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b/
| '''d''' /d/
| '''d''' /ɖ/
| '''g''' /g/
|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''f''' /f/
| '''s''' /s/
|
|
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''v''' /v/
| '''z''' /z/
|
| '''r''' /ʁ/
|-
! colspan="2" |Lat. app.
|
| '''l''' /l/
|
|
|}
 
Plain stops are realized as voiced stops after a vowel or a nasal.
 
The placeless nasal /ɴ/ only occurs in the syllable coda. It is realized as a syllabic homorganic nasal before a stop or a nasal, and as lengthening and nasalization of the previous vowel otherwise. The sequence /ɴɭ/ is realized as /ɭɭ/.
 
===Vowels===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;"
|+
! rowspan="2" style="width: 90px; "|
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Front
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Central
! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Back
|-
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
|-
! style="" |Close
| '''i''' /i/
| '''ī''' /iː/
|
|
| '''u''' /u/
| '''ū''' /uː/
|-
! style="" |Mid
| '''e''' /e/
| '''ē''' /eː/
|
|
| '''o''' /o/
| '''ō''' /oː/
|-
! style="" |Open
|
|
| '''a''' /a/
| '''ā''' /aː/
|
|
|}
 
===Phonotactics===
The maximal syllable structure is (C(j))VV or (C(j))VN.
 
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