Yodusan language

The Yodusan language (Yodusan: Ódusaʒx Gayíd) is a rare language spoken by the Yodusa people, an ethnic group found in certain parts of Zilatra. The language, while uniquely Abexilan, is a part of the Serronan language family, deriving from Lo'Oi and being intertwined with characteristics of a number of languages encountered by the Yodusa people.
==Characteristics==
===Phonology===
In the Yodusan language, there are a total of twenty consonant sounds, in addition to five vowel sounds. This differs quite drastically from the twenty-one vowel sounds of Lo'Oi and its seven vowel sounds.
 	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar 	Glottal
Nasal 	/m/ 	 	/n/ 	 	 	 	 	
Stop 	/b/ /p/ 	 	/d/ /t/ 	 	 	 	/g/ /k/	
Affricate 	 	 	/ʦ/ 	/ʧ/ 	 	 	 	
Fricative 	 	/f/ /v/ 	/s/ /z/ 	/ʃ/ 	 	 	/x/ 	/h/
Approximant	 	 	 	 	 	/j/ 	 	
Tap 	 	 	 	 	/ɽ/ 	 	 	
Trill 	 	 	/r/ 	 	 	 	 	
===Orthography===
The Yodusan alphabet features twenty-five letters, of which two are digraphs (<kh> and <ʒx>).
Grapheme	Phoneme
A, a 	/æ/
E, e 	/e/
I, i 	/i/
O, o 	/o/
U, u 	/u/
M, m 	/m/
N, n 	/n/
B, b 	/b/
P, p 	/p/
D, d 	/d/
T, t 	/t/
G, g 	/g/
K, k 	/k/
Ʒ, ʒ 	/ts/
Ʒx, ʒx 	/ʧ/
F, f 	/f/
V, v 	/v/
S, s 	/s/
Z, z 	/z/
X, x 	/ʃ/
Kh, kh 	/x/
H, h 	/h/
Y, y 	/j/
L, l 	/ɽ/
R, r 	/r/
===Stress and Diacritics===
Traditionally, the stress in a word is always penultimate, meaning the second-to-last syllable is stressed. However, in words that are irregular to this principle, an acute accent is played on the syllable that is stressed. This may also be done to differentiate between words that are otherwise spelled the same but have different stress, producing different words.
For instance, the word "oʒá" generally means "city", while "oʒa" refers to a "bra".
==Vocabulary==
===Numbers===
*Teya : One
*Hu : Two
*Ʒeya : Three
*Bu : Four
*Beya : Five
*Ra : Six
*Ka : Seven
*Fo : Eight
*Eyaʒ : Nine
*Te : Ten
===Sample Text===
"I walked and saw a number of shepherds in the hills, caring for their sheep."
Zek xebét alaye il ko alaye kheʒu iyo ʒxaumoka havi oxót, miga toya khiye flokót.
"Welcome to the city! There is shelter here for you."
"Basaʒi gu oʒá! Teto ex afu eto toya khe."
"There is going to be rain this September, be careful!"
"Teto ex gu gekh pekau deye Ahudéʒx, gekh aʒun!"
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