Jxosledu

General information
Jxosledu (Jxosledus qajo [ʈʂχɤs.le.dɯ̽s. qɑ.ɖʐɤ.]) is one of the most spoken languages on the planet Aetho. It is a majority language in Jxosledu, the very populous nation after which it is named. It is a descendant of Proto-Serazi.

Consonants

 * The postalveolar consonants are all apical, except for /ʈʂ/, /ʈʂ’/, and [ɽ], which are subapical/retroflex.
 * The lax consonants are voiced intervocalically.
 * The glottal transition /h/ takes on certain characteristics of vowels it appears after, namely: after back vowels it becomes [ɣ] and after front vowels it becomes [ʝ] (both devoiced in the coda).
 * The lateral approximant is pronounced [ɽ] intervocalically and never begins a word.
 * /ɰ/ is an unrounded post-velar approximant.

Transliteration
This page is written using the Latin transliteration, shown below, of the Jxosledu alphabet.

examples
 * faroźi [ɬɑɽɤʑɪ], "froth"
 * çq'ara [ʈʂ’q’ɑɽɑ], "screw"
 * äqxd [æqχt], seven

Collation
d, t, s, z, j, ç, f, l/r, g, k, ś, ź, y, w, n, q, q', x, h, i, e, ä, u, o, a

Cases

 * Absolutive: marks the absolutive argument of a verb (mother)
 * Ergative-genitive: marks the ergative argument of a verb, genitives, and possession (mother's)
 * Dative: marks the destination of an action or object (to/for mother)
 * Instrumental-comitative: marks accompaniment and what is used to complete an action (with mother)
 * Locative: marks the location of something (near mother)
 * Equative: marks what an object is like (like mother)
 * Adverbial: marks what something is as and marks adverbs (as a mother)
 * Vocative: marks what is directly referred to (mother!)

Verbs
Infinitive/Supine: a-root-a

Evidence/Generalness suffixes

 * The  in the gnomic reportative and inferential endings is typically not pronounced except in poetry.

Numerals
The Jxosledus count in the unheard of base-14 (tetradecimal), rather than base-ten (decimal). This is because the Aethos have eight fingers and six toes.


 * ex. yudiyuyujäsgä (555) =1055
 * dijedtarojäsgä (320) =616
 * çeddiäqxd (72) =100

Colors

 * hauj [hɑ.ɯ̽ʈʂ.]: black
 * way [ɰ̙ɑj.]: white
 * sag [sɑk̟.]: red, pink
 * dises [tɪ.ses.]: orange, brown
 * śild [ɕɪlt.]: yellow
 * eo [e.ɤ.]: cyan, green, blue
 * zored [zɤ.ɽet.]: gray
 * asuqli [ɑ.sɯ̽q.lɪ.]: purple