Kazcadian

Classification and Dialects
Kazcadian is descended from Tharfish, a dialect of english. It is spoken in the Cascadia region of the United States and Canada. The most significant differences between Tharfish and Kazcadian are the spelling and grammar changes, along with simplification of the vocabulary. Kazcadian has been somewhat influenced by the native languages of the area as well. Sound changes will not be done in the international phonetic alphabet, but instead all letters used in the sound changes section will be all possible english meanings of that letter, and occasionally just the most common realizations. An exception is the sound /ç/ because it does not currently exist as its own separate grapheme in english.

Sound Changes
Standard Tharfish > Cascadian Tharfish

Sound Simplifications take place here

kh gh > ç

ks > cç

sh > (diverges into zh and ch)

dge > zh / #_V

Cascadian Tharfish > Kazcadian

Spelling Changes take place here

th > ts / #_(i,e)

Conditional Letters
There are several conditional letters with sounds depending on those around it. These letters are c, q, and the vowels. Vowels A, E, I, O, and U follow regular patterns where the first sound is used when the vowel has a consonant on either side of it, and the second consonant is not followed by a vowel. The second sound is used otherwise. The first sound can be induced by doubling the following consonant, and the second sound can by induced by adding a -y after the noun, which is silent following a noun. Vowels A and I have third sounds that apply when the sound is word initial. Vowel pairs usually use second sounds. C-Changes are extremely relevant.

The conditional consonant C has forms k and s.  When one of the following conditions apply, k is used When the second condition applies, the second sound of the vowel is used. This is called a C-Change. K does not posess this quality. When the C is followed by an E or an I, s is used.
 * Word Final
 * Followed by A, O, or U

The conditional consonant Q has forms kʷ and k̚. The first is used when followed by a vowel, and the second is used when word-final. All non-word-final Q's will be followed by a vowel.