Getgi Itde

Getgi Itde, the "song language, language of song", is the only language spoken in Ralican which is not descended from Blaka Teala.

Phonotactics and Allophony
A syllable can have at most one consonant before and after a vowel, i.e. (C)V(C).

Gegi Itde is stress-timed. The vowels /a i o/ are strong, while the vowel /ə/ is weak.

Allophonic Rules
Vowels: Syllables: Words:
 * The sound of /ə/ depends on the nearest vowel after it in the word, or the nearest vowel in front of it in the word if it is the last vowel in the word. It is [ə] in isolation or with /o/, [ɐ] with /a/, and [ɪ] with /i/.
 * Stops /p b t d .../ are oral [p b t d ...] in the onset of a syllable (before the vowel) and nasal [m̥ m n̥ n ...] when in the coda of a syllable (after the vowel).
 * Non-labial voiced approximants /ɹ j .../ become voiced fricatives [z ʝ ...] when in the onset of a syllable.
 * The voiced alveolar approximant /ɹ/ can be pronounced centrally or laterally.
 * If a consonant is surrounded by two vowels (even if they are not in the same word), it is always pronounced as if in the onset.
 * Historical word-medial /n̥ ɲ̊ ŋ̊/ shift to the place of articulation of the adjacent non-glottal consonant.

It can be theorized the language has its unusual rules due to regularization of pre-existing patterns.

Historically, the language had phonemes /m/ and /n/ separate from /b/ and /d/ which were then reanalyzed as /əbʔ/ and /ədʔ/ respectively. It also had a phoneme /l/ which was then analyzed as /ɹ/.