Barejine

General information
Barejine (native Barzhinrizhe /bɑɾʒɪ̃ɾíʒə/) is a spoken language of the alien Patronans (Parneven, sg. Parneva) on the planet Patrona (Parona /pɑɾʊ̃nə/). It is the official language of the country of Barejinia (Barzhine /bɑɾʒɪ̃́nə/), and its many former colonies.

Classification
Barejine is a Chevin language (see Proto-Chevin), closely related to Alemarese. It is a direct descendant of True Chevin (Proto-Alemar-Barejine). As a Chevin language, it is also a member of the Edalith macrofamily (see Proto-Edalith).

Consonants

 * [q] is an allophone of /k/ before back vowels.
 * [β] is an allophone of /ɸ/ between vowels.

Monophthongs

 * There are only five non-marginal nasal monophthongs, not included in the table for brevity: /ɪ̃/, /ʏ̃/, /ʊ̃/, and /ɐ̃/.
 * [ʌ] is an allophone of /ɔ/ before /l/, /ʎ/, or /ɾ/.
 * There are two marginal phonemes: /ə/ & /ə̃/, which occur only in unstressed word-initial and word-final syllables. Most word-final instances are the result of weakening of low vowels.

Diphthongs

 * There are also two nasal diphthongs, not included in the table for brevity: /yɐ̃/, and /uɐ̃/.
 * [yə], [uə], [yə̃], and [uə̃] are allophones of /yæ/, /uɑ/, /yɐ̃/, and /uɐ̃/ when unstressed word-finally.

Stress
Stress is usually on the last syllable, unless that syllable contains a reduced vowel, in which case the penultimate is stressed. Stress is not entirely predictable.



Sound Changes

 * 1) Initial and final epenthesis of /ǝ/
 * 2) First palatalization
 * 3) Palatalization of /k/ and /g/ before front vowels
 * 4) /k/ becomes /j/ before an obstruent
 * 5) Intervocalic & word-final non-geminate obstruents and those preceding /l/ and /r/ lenite
 * [θ, ð] > [s, z] / V_, > [t, d] elsewhere
 * [t, d, h, x]u > [ts, dz, ɸ, ɸ] / _[V, #]
 * 1) Second palatalization
 * 2) jn, nj, gn, ng > ɲ  & ni word-finally
 * 3) jl, lj, gl, lg > ʎ & li word-finally
 * 4) jt, tj, ts > tʃ & jd, dj, dz > dʒ & ti/di word-finally
 * 5) js, sj, jx, xj > ʃ & jz, zj, ɣ > ʒ & si/zi/xi/ɣi word-finally
 * [u, i] > [β, ʒ] before a vowel unless directly following a consonant
 * [u, i] > 0 before a mid-vowel of the same roundedness
 * 1) lowering of monophthongs & diphthongs with a first element of /u/ & /i/ before obstruent and liquid codas
 * 2) monophthongization:
 * 3) /ei/ > /e/
 * 4) /ou/ > /o/
 * 5) /au/, /ao/, /uau/, /uao/, /oau/, /oao/ > /ɔ/
 * 6) /ia/, /ea/, /ae/, /iae/ > /æ/
 * 7) /eu/, /eo/, /ueu/, /ueo/, /io/ > /ø/
 * 8) (i)[u, o] > ɥ / _F and > w / _B
 * 9) /iu/, /ɥi/ > /y/
 * 10) /iɔ/ > /œ/
 * 11) /a/>/ɑ/
 * 12) lowering and unrounding of monophthongs before liquid codas
 * 13) Nasalization
 * 14) nasal consonants induce nasalization of preceding vowels
 * 15) coda nasal consonants disappear
 * 16) nasal vowels collapse to /ɪ̃/, /ʏ̃/, /ʊ̃/, and /ɐ̃/
 * 17) /ɥɪ̃/ > /ʏ̃/
 * 18) Loss of intertonic (between a stressed syllable and the beginning or end of a word) vowels
 * 19) Low vowels become /ǝ/ when word-final (/ə̃/ when nasal)
 * 20) final /h/ and /hǝ/ disappear
 * 21) /k/ and /q/ merge
 * 22) q > k
 * 23) k > q / _B
 * 24) /ɸ/ and /β/ merge
 * 25) β > ɸ
 * 26) ɸ > β / V_V
 * 27) consonants are lost before liquids
 * 28) word final obstruents are lost unless geminated
 * 29) length distinctions are lost