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. There is an additional tendency to reduce all word-final vowels in multi-syllable words into an ultra-short schwa.

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.

Nouns
There is no gendered distinction between nouns. Being an agglutinative language, when nouns are conjugated in North-Central Aeséni, postfixes are attached to it. The most common such postfix is the plural marker -uń, which takes any singular noun, and makes it plural - however, its usage is redundant when the noun is preceded by a word that indicates the quantity of said noun, in which case, the singular is used.

Verbs
Being an incorporative language, North-Central Aeséni treats a lot of verbs more as postfixes for their direct object nouns, with the verb (to hunt) attaching itself to the noun  (bear) and forming  (to hunt bears).

When it comes to tense, distinction is made between past and non-past verbs, with no grammatical distinction between present and future. Non-past isn't marked, while past is marked by the postfix -om.

Pronouns
Pronouns are conjugated just like regular nouns.

Adjectives
Regular adjectives are unmarked. Comparative adjectives are concatenated with the postfix -ap. Superlative adjectives are the same as comparative adjectives, but are preceded by the prefix -rak.

Possible relation to Northwest Aeséni or Northeast Aeséni
Numerals smaller than 8 in North-Central Aeséni appear to be borrowed from Northeast Aeséni, while numerals larger than 8 are borrowed from Northwest Aeséni. Several other nouns also appear to be borrowed. However, there are several that have direct cognates in Northeast Aeséni. The language could have possibly emerged from a prehistoric mingling of speakers of those two other languages.

Numerals

 * 0 - myori (borrowed from Proto-Elven)
 * 1 - pel
 * 2 - yakke
 * 3 - yusse
 * 4 - tyeryi
 * 5 - pyese
 * 6 - yoytyi
 * 7 - tyitte
 * 8 - syakki
 * 9 - ryiiʻktyi
 * 10 - yeeʻmyut'
 * 11 - syipuń'
 * 12 - mit
 * 13 - mińkin'
 * 14 - myintyi
 * 15 - wuntye
 * 16 - aktyi
 * 17 - naa'tyi
 * 18 - aapmityi
 * 19 - aaʻmuuʻnti
 * 20 - ńiiʻnkite
 * 21 - ńiiʻnyimpel“twenty-one”
 * 400 - iktyi “fourhundred”
 * 401 - ikińtyi “fourhundred-one”
 * 800 - yakkyiktyi “two fourhundred”
 * 8000 - ummityi

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


 * aytyeenyi - racial endonym, Aeséni
 * ìpalyee ʻ  - male deer (NW)
 * epot'lyeʻ - female deer (NW)
 * nisyek - bow (NW)
 * moot - bear (NE)
 * tyip - bird (NE)
 * pyak '  - goat (NE)
 * kuuk '  - coat (NE)
 * wyuus '  - javelin (NE)
 * yii '  - tribe (NE)
 * syańkyiho - tribe member (NW)
 * tyińsityek - house (NW)
 * nomomaa '  - goblin (NW)
 * puuʻmaa - dog (NW)
 * too ' maa - ogre (NW)
 * kaftuumisyeʻ - squirrel (NW)
 * sipi - tree (NW)
 * paapyisek - bonfire (NW)
 * myii ' tiit '  - goodness (NW)
 * tyeep '  - height (NW)
 * syisyit '  - disease (NW)