North-Central Aeséni language

The North-Central Aeséni language is the language of a subsection of the Aeséni people, the ones living in the mountains of Northern Froturn. It is an agglutinative language with an flexible word-order, although SVO is preferred

Consonants

 * Unlike in Northeastern Aeséni - where lenition only happens morpheme-finally, and only when the following morpheme begins with a vowel - the ungeminated plosives are consistently lenited to fricatives  in postvocalic positions.
 * The hard can be realized as either alveolar  or uvular . In contrast, the  is always alveolar.
 * In a consonant cluster, consonants automatically assimilate to the last consonant of the cluster in regards to the hard-soft distinction. A consonant cluster can only consist of either hard or soft consonants, and cannot mix and match.

Vowels
North-Central Aeséni has a simple 5-vowel system, but the pronounciation of these vowels depends on the preceding consonants: they are realized respectively as after soft consonants,  after hard consonants. There is a tendency among younger speakers to completely merge with, resulting in both  and  being pronounced as  after hard consonants.

The language also has a vowel-length distinction, distinguishing between long and short vowels. Long vowels may be optionally accompanied by one of two tones: rising or falling rising.

Possible relation to Northwest Aeséni or Northeast Aeséni
Numerals in North-Central Aeséni appear to be borrowed from Northwest Aeséni. Several other nouns also appear to be borrowed. However, there are several that have direct cognates in Northeast Aeséni.

Numerals

 * 0 - myori (borrowed from Proto-Elven)
 * 1- yinkyi
 * 2 - ńyike
 * 3 - puuʻpe
 * 4 - pimyìt'
 * 5 - minkat'
 * 6 - nyii't
 * 7 - nume
 * 8 - yiʻktyi
 * 9 - ryiʻktyi
 * 10 - yeeʻmyut'
 * 11 - syipuń'
 * 12 - mit
 * 13 - mińkin'
 * 14 - myintyi
 * 15 - wuntye
 * 16 - aktyi
 * 17 - naa'tyi
 * 18 - aapmityi
 * 19 - aaʻmuuʻnti
 * 20 - ńiiʻnkite
 * 21 - ńiiʻnyinkyi “twenty-one”
 * 400 - iktyi “fourhundred”
 * 401 - ikińtyi “fourhundred-one”
 * 800 - ńikiktyi “two fourhundred”
 * 8000 - ummityi

Nouns
Words with direct cognates in Northwest Aeséni or Northeast Aeséni will be marked with NW and NE respectively.


 * ìpalyeeʻ - male deer (NW)
 * epot'lyeʻ - female deer (NW)
 * nisyek - bow (NW)
 * moot - bear (NE)
 * tyip - bird (NE)
 * pyak' - goat (NE)