Gerrian English

**Gerrian English** is a regional dialect of English spoken in the Gerryscute GEB Empire. It serves as the official dialect spoken in the empire and is derived from Texan and Southern American English dialects together with British English influences and influences from Slavic languages, especially Russian.

## Alphabet, phonology, and grammar

Main article: Gerrian Cyrillic alphabet
The dialect is unusual as compared to other dialects for being the only dialect of English that uses Cyrillic script alongside Latin. Unlike other English variants, Gerrian English has 34 letters instead of 26.

The alphabet in whole appears as follows:

### Grammar

There are many problems when it comes to the grammar of this alphabet that can bring up problems in transilterated to it's latin.

C is represented by "Ц", it makes /k/ before A, L, O, U, and R, therefore, the latter would be replaced from CA, CL, CO, CU, and CR to KA, KL, KO, KU, and KR respectively, as in "kandy", "kloud", "Kolorado", "kup", and "kried" respectively, they would be shown with "К" instead of "Ц", which appears before E, I, or Y, as in "ceiling", "cicada", and "cyborg" respectively. "Ц" would also be transliterated to "c" replacing the "ts" in words like "tsunami" as they would be spelt like "cunami".

Y is represented by the character "Ј", even though it looks like a J, it can either be transliterated to "J" or "Y" respectively, "yes" could be spelt "jes". J (Џ) normally makes /dʒ/ as in "jump", J can also be used to make /j/ as in "yes", which can replace the character by either "y" or "j" being the first letter of "yes" or "jes" respectively. G also has this problem, since it normally makes /g/ but can also make /dʒ/, G would have to be replaced from "Г" to "Џ" when it makes /dʒ/ as in "jump", thereby making "Gerry" spell like "Jerry".

"Ҳ" is used to be pronunced /ks/ like in "box", But it can also be used for /x/ like in Scottish variant for "loch", which may be spelt "lox" instead.

The diagraphs "CH", "TH", "NG", "SH" and "ZH" also correspond to "Č", "Ť", "Ň", "Š", "Ž" respectively.

"Ж" is romanized as "S" in words like "inva**s**ion" or "plea**s**ure", but also in some loanwords like "Tombaugh Re**g**io".

"Ш" is romanized as "T" in some words like "coopera**t**ion" or "celebra**t**ion".

In some Japanese loanwords like "**ts**unami", the "ts" is Cyrillized as "Ц"

The letters for "You" and "Ya" only appear in loanwords.

## Phonology

* any consonant before [ɛ], [e], and sometimes [ɪ], [i], and [u] are often palatalized, as in "**le**t", "**la**y", "**bi**g", "**fee**t", and "ar**gue**" respectively, which are all pronounced /lʲɛt/, /lʲeɪ/, /bʲɪg/, /fʲit/ and /ˈɑrgʲu/ respectively, this rule is called "iotification", and is optional as to whether palatalize it or not.
	+ A phenomena called "Palatalized E" exists in which any consonant before any sound made by "e" is always palatalized, this does not happen with silent "e".
		- Another phenomena called "Palatalized U" exists in which any consonant before any sound made by "u" is palatalized, either partially or completely, for example: the word "pure" is said as either [pʲʊər] or [pjʊər] respectively.
* /r/ is an alveolar trill, similar to the **r** in Scottish cu**r**d, [r], [ɾ], and [ɹ] are all allophones of /r/.
* [kj], [kʲ], and [c] are all allophones of /kʲ/ and [gj], [gʲ], and [ɟ] are allophones of /gʲ/.
* [tj], [tʲ], and [ʈ] are allophones of /tʲ/ and [dj], [dʲ], and [ɖ] are allophones of /dʲ/.
* [bj] and [bʲ] are allophones of /bʲ/ and [pj] and [pʲ] are allophones of /pʲ/.
* [fj], [fʲ], [vj] and [vʲ] are all allophones of /fʲ/ and /vʲ/ respectively.
* [mj], [mʲ], and [ɱ] are allophones of /mʲ/ and [nj], [nʲ], [ɳ] and [ɲ] are all allophones of /nʲ/.
* [ʒj], [ʒʲ], [ʐ] and [ʑ] are allophones /ʒʲ/ and [ʃj], [ʃʲ], [ʂ] and [ɕ] are allophones of /ʃʲ/.
* [ç] and [x] are both allophones of /x/.
* [rj], [rʲ], and [ɻ] are all allophones of /rʲ/.
* [ɸ] and [f] are allophones of /f/ and [β] and [v] are allophones of /v/.
* **br** in **br**own can either be pronounced [br] or [ʙ], the phonemic transcription for [ʙ] is usually /br/ because it sounds like the lips vibrating together.
	+ this is necessary for people who have ankyloglossia and cannot pronounce [r] like the r in ca**r**.
* [θj] and [θʲ] are allophones of /θʲ/ and [ðj] and [ðʲ] are allophones of /ðʲ/.
* It is difficult to tell whether /ɔ/ or /ɒ/ such as the **o** and **au** in c**o**t and c**au**ght is actually two different sonuds or not, as the cot-caught merger is rapidly becoming a thing in the Southeastern part of Texas, where Gerria is in.
* Even before voiceless consonants, /aɪ/ is sometimes monophthongized, making /aɪ/ sound more like [aː].
* Some speaker pronounce /æ/ as [a].
* It is difficult to tell whether /ə/ or /ʌ/ sound the same, as both vowels might sound like [ɜ], [ɞ], [ɘ], [ɐ], or [ɵ] rather than [ə] and [ʌ] respectively, please note that [ə] sounds closer to [e] and [ʌ] sounds closer to [ɛ].
* [t] and [p] don't have an extra puff of air coming out unlike [tʰ] and [pʰ] do.
* [u], [ʉ], and [ɯ] are all allophones of /u/.
* Rhoticized vowels like [ɚ] or [ɝ] do not exist in Gerrian English dialects and are instead pronounced [ər] and [ɜr] respectively.
* Some speakers can nazalize any vowel, for example, [ɑ] can become [ɑ̃] and [æ] can become [æ̃].
* [i], [ɨ], and [y] are allophones of /i/ and [ɪ] and [ʏ] are allophones of /ɪ/.
* [lj], [lʲ], [ʎ], and [ɭ] are all allophones of /lʲ/.
* In some words, like bottle or button, [təl] and [tən] can be pronounced [ɾəl] and [ʔən] respectively.
* [ɶ] is an allophone of /a/, [ɤ] is an allophone of /o/, [ø] is an allophone of /e/ and [œ] is an allophone of /ɛ/.
* It can be hard for some speakers to pronounce [ɑ] and [ɒ] seperately.
* [ʟ] is an allophone of /l/.
* [ʋ] is an allophone of /v/.
* [ɦ] is an allophone of /h/.
* [ɣ] and [ʝ] are used in some Spanish loanwords and are sometimes used by Hispanic speakers of the dialect.
* [ɬ] and [ɮ] can sometimes be used for some speakers who try to pronounce /lʒ/.
* Some people who pronounced /b/ or /v/ very fast might say it as [ⱱ]
* [ŋj] is an allophone of /ŋʲ/.
* Some ethnic German and French speakers might pronounce /r/ as [ʁ] or [ʀ].
* [ʍ] [ɰ], and [w] are allophones of /w/.
* Some Swedish speakers of the dialect might pronounce /ʃ/ as [ɧ].
* Some Slavic speakers of the dialect might pronounce /l/ as /ɫ/.
* Unlike most languages and dialects of English, any symbol in the IPA can be used for phonetic transcriptions of the dialect.
* Some Arab speakers of the dialect may pronounce /g/, /k/, and /n/ as [ɢ], [q], or [ɴ] respectively.
* [ʕ], [ʢ], [ʡ], [ʜ], and [ħ] can be spoken of Arab speakers for Arabic loanwords.
* Some African speakers might pronounce /kp/, /gb/, and /ŋm/ as [k͡p], [ɡ͡b], or [ŋ͡m] respectively.
* Non-rhoticity is observed on a massive scale.
* Some people might read /θ/ and /ð/ as [f] and [v] respectively, primarily due to frenulums in the tongue or lips.
	+ /θ/ and /ð/ can also be perceived by some as [s] and [z] respectively.
* /x/ can be said by some speakers as [χ].