Barejine

General information
Barejine is one of the most spoken languages on the planet Patrona. It is a majority language in at least two countries, and an official language in many more.

Consonants

 * /f/ becomes [v] allophonically in between vowels.

Vowels

 * /ʊ̈/ and /ʊ̈̃/ are reduced to [ə] and [ə̃] when adjacent to another vowel or when before /r/.

Transliteration
The Barejine Latin Alphabet developed for use in Earth-friendly documents is as follows:
 * nasalized vowels: an, ân, en, in, în, on, un, ûn
 * digraphs: tx /tʃ/, ly /ʎ/, ny /ɲ/, rh /ɹ̠/ (no different from ), oi /eɪ̈/

Verbs
There are four conjugation classes based on four thematic vowels: a, ê, u, and ô

Present tense
-a verbs -ê verbs -u verbs -ô verbs mô -to be

Numbers
Though Patronans have ten fingers in total, the most common base is 8 (octal) which was spread by Barejine and Alemarese-speakers across most of Patrona. Typically, fingercounting starts with the thumbs out, the first finger being the index, etc.

Colors
Patronans can't see blue, so they have no need of words to distinguish it, greatly shrinking their color vocabulary.
 * kind [ˈkĩd]: dark red, purple
 * gôd [ˈgɔd]: light red, pink, orange
 * plaof [ˈplɑof]: white, yellow
 * natxenz [nɑˈtʃɛ̃z]: light green, chartreuse, cyan
 * farz [ˈfɑɹ̠z]: dark green, teal
 * eritt [eˈɹ̠it]: black, blue
 * foik [ˈfeɪ̈k]: gray, brown

Days of the week
The Patronan week is typically only six days long.
 * 1) dâjaoxk- Sunday
 * 2) lamâxk- Lameaday
 * 3) kavâxk- Cavecday
 * 4) fêbrâxk- Veverday
 * 5) mîndaxk- big Moonday
 * 6) jilyaxk- little Moonday