Ćín

General Information
Ćín, is a memeber of the Cit [kit] language family. It is spoken by almost 600 million native speakers, and more than 1.5 billion L2 and L3 speakeres.

TBD

Currently, this language is being redesigned

Hopefully this is a thorough overview of the language (there's more in the phonology section then ever before :).


 * While I don't have examples up yet, I will put them up when the language is developed enough.

Consonants
Ćín's 42 consonants are listed below. The orthography is written next to them in bold. There are relatively few consonants in Ćín.

Consonant Strength
An imporant part of Ćín is consonant strength. Consonant strength determines what consonant clusters are permitted. There are three strengths of of consonants: strong, weak, and soft. They are listed in the table below In general, two (or more) strong consonants may not form a consonant cluster, two (or more) soft consonants may not form a consonant cluster, and a weak consonant may not form a consonant cluster with a soft consonant. Other than that, most consonant clusters were permitted.

Consonant Mutation
Consonants could also be "weakened" or "hardened." A strong consonant could be weakened into a weak consonant, which could be furthur weakened into a soft consonant. The process could be reversed as well.

Vowels
Ćín's 18 vowels are listed below along with the accepted dipthongs (V is a vowel). As with consonants, the orthography is written next to them in bold.


 * [e, ɛ, and a] become [ẽ, ɛ̃, and ã] before /m and n/.

Vowel Strength
Like consonants, vowels have strengths.

Strong vowels: 

Weak vowels: 

Syllables and Stress
Syllables in Ćín are (C)(C)V(C)(C) where C is a consonant and V is a vowel, diphthong, or triphthong.

Stress
Stress is determined by morae in PC. The number of mora a syllable contains is determined by the vowel in that syllabe.

Monomoraic: a short weak vowel

Bimoraic: a short strong vowel or a long vowel

Trimoraic: a diphthong

Quadmoraic: a triphthong

Stress in Ćín always falls on the antepenultimate mora of a word, and functions as a pitch accent. If the antepenultimate mora falls in a monomoraic or bimoraic syllable, the pitch is rising, if it is in a trimoraic or quadmoraic syllable, the pitch is falling.

Sandhi
While not extremely prevalent or complicaated, sandhi did occur at word boundries between a final vowel and a, á, or i. This resulting in a liquid being placed between the two words, j for between a final vowel and a, w between a final vowel and á, and l between a final vowel and i. Despite the fact it is written on the first word, it is pronunced with the second world. While it did not serve a grammatical function, it did generate irregularities in daughter languages.