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|script = [[w:Latin script|Latin]] (unofficially), Rttirri | |script = [[w:Latin script|Latin]] (unofficially), Rttirri | ||
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'''Gaju''' (English: /'gɑːd͡ʒuː/, Gaju: [' | '''Gaju''' (English: /'gɑːd͡ʒuː/, Gaju: ['käɟu], [[Rttirri]]: [ˈkɑcu]) is a minority language in [[Verse:Rttirria|Rttirria]], spoken by the Gaju people in the eastern part of the country. It is a member of the Rttirrian language family, descended from the Proto-South-Rttirrian langauge that is also the ancestor of modern [[Rttirri]], the nation's official language. | ||
The language has been documented from the [[Old Gaju]] period in the 14th century. While it was used widely across much of eastern Rttirria at that time, its homeland has slowly shrunken over time into the countryside, small towns, and jungles as Rttirri has come to dominate the national landscape. The Gaju community, as well as some ethnically Rttirri Easterners resenting Western cultural influence, has pushed for greater recognition and representation of Gaju and other minority languages. In the 1970s, it became an official language of all of Rttirria; citizens have the right to receive voting ballots, drivers' license exams, court interpreters, and other official documents and proceedings in the Gaju language. | The language has been documented from the [[Old Gaju]] period in the 14th century. While it was used widely across much of eastern Rttirria at that time, its homeland has slowly shrunken over time into the countryside, small towns, and jungles as Rttirri has come to dominate the national landscape. The Gaju community, as well as some ethnically Rttirri Easterners resenting Western cultural influence, has pushed for greater recognition and representation of Gaju and other minority languages. In the 1970s, it became an official language of all of Rttirria; citizens have the right to receive voting ballots, drivers' license exams, court interpreters, and other official documents and proceedings in the Gaju language. | ||
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The rising and falling tones are uncommon, being found only in loanwords and in a small number of native words where elision of ''VCV'' sequences has caused high-tone and low-tone syllables with the same vowel to occur adjacently to each other. | The rising and falling tones are uncommon, being found only in loanwords and in a small number of native words where elision of ''VCV'' sequences has caused high-tone and low-tone syllables with the same vowel to occur adjacently to each other. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | |||
Gaju places very tight restrictions on syllables: maximally, CVN syllables are allowed, where C is any consonant and N is any of the voiced non-palatal nasals: /m/, /n/, or /ŋ/. | |||
Loanwords containing syllables ending in a consonant other than one of these, or containing consonant clusters, usually make use of an epenthetic /ə/: | |||
* ''peensììlùù'' [pʰɛn˥.sɪ˩.lə˩] "pencil" | |||
* ''eelùùchùùbùùlùù'' [ɛ˥.lə˩.t͡ʃə˩.pə˩.lə˩] "algebra" | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||