Casuma

Kasuma is a Germanic language spoken in western Europe. It is the official language in the Kasum Republic, and a minority language in surrounding areas in England, France and Spain.

General information
Kasuma is a fusional nominative-accusative head-initial language. It is spoken by approximately 90 million people in Kasum and approximately 1 million in surrounding areas. It is an isolate within the Germanic language family. Notable features include a surviving dual number and the retention of Proto-Germanic nasal vowels. There are many loans in Kasuma from French, Spanish, Basque, and the Celtic languages. Morphologically, Kasuma has four noun cases, three grammatical numbers, and three grammatical genders. In addition, verbs conjugate for person and number, three tenses, three moods, and two voices.

Consonants

 * (d͡ʒ) only appears in loan words
 * /l/, /m/, /n/, and /r/ can appear syllabically.
 * /ɾ/ is an allophone of /r/ word-finally after a vowel for many speakers and is not a seperate phoneme.
 * /χ/ is an allophone of /h/ after a consonant.
 * voiced consonants become voiceless before another voiceless consonant. the digraph dh is pronounced /tχ/.

Diphthongs
In addition, /j/ and /w/ can form a diphthong before any vowel or a triphthong before a dipthong.

Alphabet
The Kasuma alphabet has 32 letters, and does not transcribe the language to a 1:1 grapheme:phoneme ratio.
 * Loan words are often transcribed phonetically to avoid pronounciation errors. For example, center is spelled sentr, and jelly would be spelled dzheli.
 * The letters Kk, Qq, and Xx can appear in loanwords and are not changed to c, c(w), and cs when they appear.