Boselenan

The Boselenan Language (kereba boselenansto) is a constructed language that I created not to be a member of any specific language family, rather to be something unique.

=Orthography= There are two basic varieties of the Boselenan alphabet, the 'basic' and the 'extended' alphabets - whose names refer to whether or not the four Redundant Letters are included. There are three digraphs - 'ng', 'ts' and 'tš' which are usually considered seperate letters, and have their own names : 'eng', 'tse' and 'tše'. The letters with diacritics: 'ĕ', 'ğ' and 'š' are also treated as letters in their own right, and are collated seperately to their non-diacritic parent letters.

Different Alphabets
The basic alphabet is the most used alphabet, with the three digraphs 'ng', 'ts' and 'tš' treated as seperate letters, altough collated with 'n', 't' and 't' respectively, resulting in this 28-letter alphabet.

A B D E Ĕ F G Ğ H I J K L M N NG O P Q R S Š T TS TŠ U V Y

The extended alphabet is the same as the basic alphabet, with the addition of the four letters which are usually considered redundant in Boselenan.

A B C D E Ĕ F G Ğ H I J K L M N NG O P Q R S Š T TS TŠ U V W X Y Z

Redundant Letters
Boselenan does not productively use the letters 'c', 'w', 'x' or 'z', although they are placed in the 'extended' alphabet due to their use in some foreign place names. The status of 'x' is slightly different to the other three redundant letters, in that it used to be used in a handful of native words, representing the sound 'ks' in the prefix oxe which indicates a 'front' object - as in oxekelĕbĕ "front door", or oxeseleeb "seafront". However, the 'x' has since been replaced with just a plain 's', resulting with osekelĕbĕ and oseseleeb.