Fecharese language

Fecharese (Fecharese: Fecarimisu ) or Standard Fecharese is a Fecharic language of the North-Socoan language family, mainly spoken in Fechara. It originated around the Eye Lakes of the Fecharese Great Lakes region.

Consonants

 * /t/ is a dentialveolar [t̪].
 * /μ, ꝥ, ȸ/ become [n, p̼, b̼] when adjacent to alveolar and velar plosives.
 * /ꝥ, t, k/ become voiced [ȸ, d, ɡ] syllable-finally.
 * /t͡ɕ/ becomes the fricative [ʃ] syllable-finally.

Writing system


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
Fecharese is a synthetic language that employs a moderate level of agglutination of suffixes to nouns. It is predominantly head-initial.

Number
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
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
Fecharese uses postpositions.

Tense and aspect
Verbs in Fecharese are marked for tense and aspect with particles following the verb.

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

Syntax
Fecharese is a strongly head-initial language. The basic word order is verb–object–subject. Adjectives follows nouns; adverbs and auxiliars follow verbs; Possessors precede nouns.