Fecharese language

Classical Fecharese (Fecarimisu ) or, simply, Fecharese is a North-Socoan language that originated in the area of the Eye Lakes of the Fecharese Great Lakes region.

Consonants
The phoneme /t/ is a denti-alveolar plosive [t̪].

Phonotactics
The orbicular phonemes /μ, ꝥ, ȸ/ become [n, p̼, b̼] when adjacent to denti-alveolar and velar plosives.

Voiceless plosives become voiced at the end of a syllable.

The affricate /t͡ɕ/ becomes the fricative [ʃ] at the end of a syllable.

Writing system


Classical Fecharese is written using the Fecharese script. It is a featural script; each glyph is made up of four parts, representing the manner of articulation (cuswewer), place of articulation (cusworoño), a modifier (cilowswe) and the vowel (atañegqo). It is written from bottom to top, right across the page.

Grammar
Classical Fecharese is a synthetic language that employs a moderate level of agglutination of affixes to nouns.

Number
Classical Fecharese has four numbers: singular, plural, greater plural and collective. Plural nouns are formed using reduplication of syllables of the noun, while collective ones are formed with the postposition -le.

Cases
Classical Fecharese nouns are marked with a case suffix. Many meanings expressed by the cases correspond to phrases or expressions containing prepositions in most Indo-European languages.

The ergative, accusative and intransitive cases are used in formal speech and to avoid ambiguity, often they are omitted and infered from context.

Fecharese has the antiaccusative case, used to mark the patient subject of a passive clause.

Postpositions
Classical Fecharese uses postpositions.

Tense and aspect
In Classical Fecharese, verbs are conjugated for tense and aspect using particles following the verb.

Negation
Negation is expressed with the suffix -fae on the verb.

Syntax
Classical Fecharese is a strongly head-initial language. The main word order is verb–object–subject. Adjectives come after the nouns they modify.