Nanjey'a

Classification and Dialects
Nanjëa has one major dialect for which the language is named. The language is spoken by the Nanja people who live on the coastal plains of the planet '''Ärreḽa. '''

Consonants

 * Voiced labio-velar approximate /w/ also included
 * Voiceless alveolar, bilabial and velar stops /t, p, k/ have distinct aspirated forms /tʰ, pʰ, kʰ/
 * The only consonant that occurs as a germinate is /n/ becoming  /nː/

Vowel Length

 * Long vowels cannot occur after a germinate or in two consecutive syllables
 * In all words beginning with a vowel, the first vowel must be longWhen two vowels are next to each other but are not pronounced as a diphthong it is denoted by placing a grave accent above the first vowel in the pair.

AI to ÀI, EI to ÈI, OI to ÒI and so on

If one of the vowels is accented in the pair it also means that it will not be pronounced as a diphthong.

Diacritics
Diacritics are signs written above or below a letter marking a change in its pronunciation. There are three types of diacritics native to Nanjëa: umlauts (ä, ë, ï, ö, ü), acute accents (á, é, í, ó, ú), grave accents (à, è, ì, ò, ù).

Umlauts
Umlauts are the only diacritics that deal with different vowel sounds. Out of the five letters that have umlauts, four of them are shorthand for common diphthongs.

The five umlaut letters are pronounced as follows:

Diphthongs
Diphthongs are combinations of vowels where the first vowel slides to the next vowel without a break in pronunciation. Any two vowels that do not have diacritics and are next to each other in a word are pronounced as a diphthong. Theoretically any two vowels could become a diphthong but commonly there are only three not covered by umlauts:

Grammatical Endings
All parts of speech in Nanjëa have a specific ending which can identify the word's part of speech.

Verb Conjugation (Based on Mood)
* indicative tense has no conjugation

Pronouns
Pronouns do not end with the noun ending but do have different endings depending on their part of speech.

'A', 'An', and 'The'
These words are not translated.

Lara = ''flower, a flower, or, the flower. ''

Lletëa ''= affair, an affair, or, the affair. ''

Nauna = egg, an egg, or, the egg.

Letter Names
Every vowel is named by its own sound, and every consonant by its sound plus -a. Thus: tasa (cup), is spelled aloud ta ah sa ah; leĉa (milk), la eh cha ah; ralla (moon), rra ah lla ah.

Example text
Anwa leĉa paanos