Yurta language

Yurta
Юртӹ чылме, Юртӹшла Yurtă cĕlme, Yurtăsyla
File:WelcomeToYurtaRegionSign.png Multilingual roadway sign in Sautharian (top) and Yurta (bottom), it reads as "You are now entering the Yurta Autonomous Region"
Pronunciation	[ˈɪ̯urtʌ̹ ˈt͡ʃɨlme] [ɪ̯urˈtʌ̹ʃla]
Native to	Sauthar
Ethnicity	837,251 Yurta
Native speakers	789,420 (native) 1,057,675 (2nd language)  (2022)
Language family	Yurta
Writing system	Cyrillic (current) Latin (former)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	yrt
ISO 639-3	yrt

Yurta (natively known as: Юртӹ чылме, Yurtă cĕlme, IPA: [ˈɪ̯urtʌ̹ ˈt͡ʃɨlme]) is an isolate language spoken by the indiginous Yurta people of northern Sauthar, primarily in the Yurta autonomous region and adjacent areas, and the Yurta diaspora. Approximantly 1/7th of the Yurta population is monolingual due to them living in rural areas. There are 3 dialect groups of Yurta, northern, southern and island, only the norhtern and island variaeties are still spoken daily.

Usage

Yurta is the native language of the Yurta people and an official language of the Yurta autonomous region. It is spoken by approximately 1,829,000 people in Sauthar, of which only 789,420 natively, and another 18,000 in other countries. 94% of ethnic Yurta and 25% of the people of other ethnicities living in Sauthar claimed knowledge of the Yurta language during the 2022 census. It used to be concidered endangered due to the dominance of the Sautharian language, but after the establishment of the Yurta autonomous region, the language and culture has been promoted, and now it's spoken by a significant minority of the sautharian population as well. Yurta is tought at schools throughout the country.

Phonology

Consonant

The consonants are the following (the corresponding Cyrillic letters are in brackets): The stops, sibilants and affricates are voiceless but get voiced in intervocallic possitions and after other voiced consonants. Geminate consonants are do not undergo this lenition. A lot of second language speakers usually pronounce them as always voiceless.

	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar
Plosive/Affricate	p ⟨п⟩	t ⟨т⟩	t͡ʃ ⟨ч⟩	k ⟨к⟩
Nasal	m ⟨м⟩	n ⟨н⟩	ɲ ⟨нь⟩
Fricative	v~ʋ~w ⟨в⟩	s ⟨с⟩	ʃ ⟨ш⟩	x ⟨х⟩
Approximant		l ⟨л⟩	j ⟨й,ь⟩
Rhotic		ɾ~r ⟨р⟩

Vowels

Yurta has a 6 vowel system, though the exact vowels vary by dialect. The vowels are the following (the corresponding Cyrillic letters are in brackets):

	Front	Central	back
Close	i ⟨и⟩	ɨ ⟨ы⟩	u ⟨у⟩
Mid	e ⟨е⟩		ʌ̹ ⟨ӹ⟩
Open		a ⟨а⟩