Arrasian

Arrasian is a East Semitic language spoken as a lingua franca in communities within the city of  Arrasi and its environs in the middle east. Approximately 400,000 people speak Arrasian as their L1 and over 40 million more as a lingua franca. It is of considerable interest to linguists and ethnographers, because of its complex history and unique place in the world.

Arrasian appears to have begun as a dialect of Akkadian in Babylonia, which fell under the influence of Aramaic and old Persian during the classical period in the Achaemenid Empire. Later on it acquired slight influence of Greek during the Seleucid occupation of Babylonia. Later on it has continued to recieve heavy influence from Arabic since the Rashidun Caliphate took over up to the modern era.

Classification and Dialects
Arrasian is an East Semitic language. It is a modern descendant of Akkadian.

Phonotactics
Arrasian syllable structure can be summarized in the following manner, Those which parentheses enclose are optional components: Arrasian syllable structure consists of an optional syllable onset, consisting of one or two consonants; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, consisting of one or two consonants. The following restrictions apply:
 * (C1) (S1) V (S2) (C2 (C3))
 * Onset
 * First consonant (C1): Can be any consonant, including a liquid (/l, r/). (Onset is composed only of one consonant; consonant clusters are only found in loanwords, sometimes an epenthetic /e/ is inserted between consonants.)
 * Nucleus
 * Semivowel (S1)
 * Vowel (V)
 * Semivowel (S2)
 * Coda
 * First consonant (C2): Can be any consonant.
 * Second consonant (C3): Can also be any consonant.

Stress
The stress in Arrasian is almost completely predictable. In its syllable typology, there are three syllable weights: light (V, CV); heavy (CVC, CV̄), and superheavy (CV̄C). If the last syllable is superheavy, it is stressed, otherwise the rightmost heavy syllable is stressed. If a word contains only light syllables, the first syllable is stressed. Where (C) is any consonant, (V) is any short vowel and (V̄) is any long vowel.

Writing System
It is worth noting that in common practice, the short vowel diacritics are not usually shown hence the pronunciation of a word is inferred from context.

The ة "tā rakistum" (bound ta) is a special letter which is used to denote feminine nouns, it is usually read at /-t/ or /-at/ depending on the context.

Grammar
Most roots of the Arrasian language consist of three consonants (called the radicals), but some roots are composed of four consonants (so-called quadriradicals). Between and around these radicals various infixes, suffixes and prefixes, having word generating or grammatical functions, are inserted. The resulting consonant-vowel pattern differentiates the original meaning of the root. Also, the middle radical can be geminated, which is represented by a doubled consonant in transcription (and sometimes in the cuneiform writing itself).

The consonants /ʔ/, /w/, /j/ and /n/ are termed "weak radicals" and roots containing these radicals give rise to irregular forms

Nouns
Nouns in Arrasian decline for case, number, and gender. They have two genders (masculine and feminine), three cases (nominative, accusative and genitive) and two functional numbers (plural and singular) plus a vestigial dual number used in natural pairs like legs (پریدان), hands (كَفّان), eyes (عینان), couples (زوگان) and twins(ماشان).

Fortunately, almost all Arrasian nouns have sound plural i.e. they form regular plurals (the only exceptions are a few Arabic borrowed words mostly for technical terms). Typically, in singular masculine nouns end in any letter but feminine nouns end in ة /-(a)t/ e.g شر /ʃar/ (king),شرة /ʃarat/ (queen).