Ryuutu

Ryuutu is a northern oxa language spoken by ryuutu, a sub-spieces of Jamesianoid (egg-laying humanoids indigioius to Jamesos-626). Zo-ryuutya is one of the few extant polysynthethic languages spoken by any type of Jamesianoid. Ryuutu have feathery wings and limbs, they live in the mountains in Upper Orodia, Mwula and the La-amwi islands.

Classification and Dialects
Ryuutu is a northen oxa language that is very simular to Haapitu the only other northen oxa language. Haapitu is often considered a dialect of Ryuutu because their grammar is almost identical but their lexicon is diferent. The mutiual understanabiliy between Ryuutu and Haapitu speakers is dependant on which dialect of Haapitu they are speaking, a Wehani haapitu can understan a contenial Ryuutu resonably well but a Thwekaki Haapitu will need to speand a few weeks to learn how to talk to ryuutu. La-amwi Ryuutu who live in the La-amwi islands and Mwungo sky-cities still have the old voice defferention between plosive consonants while the contenal ryuutu have lenentated these consonants into affricates.

Phonology
The phonolgy of Ryuutu has followed the North-south Oxa split, the first major split between the Oxa languages. Old Oxa allowed for the consontant clusters ks, gz , kɕ(ksh) , gʑ(gzh) , ps , bz , tr and dr but not consontant-j and consontant-w/ɰ clusters common in languages spoken by Jamesianoids, preferring to use diphthongs which were ia , iu , io , oa , ua , oe, ue and oi

Consonants
Ryuutu has kept most of the Old Oxa phonology intact but has murged /ɕ/ with /s/ and /ʑ/ with /z/. It has split its velear approximant between labio-valear and valear consontants. [1]Old voiced plosives spoken by Mwula and La-amwi ryuutu.

[2]Voiced affricates spoken by contenatal ryuutu.

Vowels
Ryuutu has 6 vowels, all apart from /ʊ/ which occured from consontant cluster fragmentation and final consontants which were not droped when Ryuutu and Haapitu no longer allowed for syllable codas a.k.a closed syllables. [1]Contenatal dialect.

[2]Mwula and La-amwi dialect.

Phonotactics
Ryuutu does not allow for closed syllables or diphthongs, most of which have ether fromed their own syllables like u, a, ye,wa ect. Ryuutu allows for the syllable strucure (C)(j,w)V, old Oxa consontant clusters have fragmented usually in this fashion.
 * ks and gz have become kü-s and gü-z
 * ksh and gzh have become sw and zw
 * ps and bz have become pü- and bü-
 * tr and dr have become rü-z and nü-