Posadi

Posadi
Amonian
(Ψοcαδι)
Pronunciation	/posadi/
Native to	Posadastan
Region	East Elisia
Native speakers	~45 million
Language family	Isolate
Early form	Proto-Posadi
Dialects	Northern Northwestern Central (standard) Southern Chikyam (etreme rural southern)
Writing system	Greek
Official status
Official language in	Posadastan
Regulated by	IPCL
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Classification

Posadi is classified as a linguistic isolate, though it borrows a fair bit of its vocabulary from nearby Okchon lnaguages.

Distribution

The Posadi language is found almost exclusively within the borders of Posadastan; however, many Posadi individuals and expat communities abroad maintain various forms of it.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes of Standard Posadi

	Labial		Alveolar		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m		n						ŋ
Plosive	p	b	t	d					k	ɡ	q		ʔ
Fricative	f	β	s	z	ʂ		ɕ	ʑ	x~χ			ɣ~ʁ	h
Affricates	pf		t͡s	d͡z	ʈʂ		t͡ɕ	d͡ʑ			qχ
Approximates				l	ʐ~ɻ			j		w
Rhotic				ɾ								ʀ

Glides

Posadi maintains 3 different glide consonants: j, w and ɥ. Each one can occur alone as a singular consonant, but they also occur on the offset of other consonants. The glides are sometimes analyzed not as independent phonemes, but as consonantal allophones of the high vowels: [i̯, u̯, y̯ respectively]. A consonant-glide combination at the start of a syllable is articulated as a single sound – the glide is not in fact pronounced after the consonant, but is realized as palatalization [ʲ], labialization [ʷ], or a labio-palatalization [ᶣ], of the consonant. The same modifications of initial consonants occur in syllables where they are traditionally followed by a high vowel, although normally no glide is considered to be present there. Hence a consonant is generally palatalized [ʲ] when followed by /i/, labialized [ʷ] when followed by /u/, and both [ᶣ] when followed by /y/, all only when the traditional vowel is immediately followed by another vowel.