Champanian language

Champanian
Łengua xâmpanèsca
Pronunciation	[ˈʎen.gwə 'ʃa:m.pan.ɛskə]
Native to	Champania parts of Amathia and Gaullica
Native speakers	c. 9.2 million
Language family	Euclean Solaric Gaullo-Solaric Champanian
Standard forms	Eastern Champanian Western Champanian
Writing system	Champanian alphabet (Solarian script) Champanian braille
Signed forms	Signed Champanian (Gaullican)
Official status
Official language in	Champania Mutual Assistance Organisation
Recognised minority language in	Amathia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ch
ISO 639-2	cha
ISO 639-3	cha

Champanian (/'ʃampani.ən/ or /'t͡ʃampani.ən/; Champanian: xâmpanèsca [ʃa:m.pan.ɛskə] or łengua xâmpanèsca [ˈʎen.gwə 'ʃa:m.pan.ɛskə]) is a Gaullo-Solaric language. The language is primarily spoken in Champania, where it is one of two official languages alongside Gaullican. Outside of Champania, it is spoken in portions of Amathia, Gaullica, the Miersas, and throughout Gaullica's former colonies, notably Cassier, and Satucin. The language shares some spoken mutual intelligibility with other Occitano-Solarian languages spoken throughout southern Gaullica and northern Etruria, and Tosuton spoken in Paretia.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Bilabial		Labio-Dental		Dental		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular
Nasal		m				n						ɲ
Plosive		p b				t d								k g
Fricative				f v		(θ)		s z		ʃ ʒ						ʁ
Affricate										tʃ dʒ
Approximate												j		w
Lateral approx.						l						ʎ

Vowels

Short vowel phonemes

	Front	Near-front	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

Both /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ only occur solely in stressed syllables and are given a grave accent. These phonemes are represented by "è" and "ò" respectively, and receive the accent regardless of whether they occur in a normally stressed syllable or an irregularly stressed syllable.

Long vowel phonemes

	Front	Back
Close	i: y:	u:
Middle	e:
Open		ɑ:

Unlike most other modern Solaric languages, Champanian continues to contrast short and long vowels. Long vowels are marked with a circumflex regardless of their position in the word. Additionally, long vowels are usually realized as dipthongs, and themselves cannot form dipthongs with other vowels nor are reduced.

The phoneme /o:/ is not present in Champanian due to vowel shifting; /o:/ shifted to /u:/ and is represented by "ô", with "û" being used to represent the front-shifted /y:/.

In addition to both long and short vowels, vowels may be reduced in spoken Champanian. These reductions occur solely in unstressed short vowels and are shown below.

Reduced vowel phonemes

	Front	Near-front	Central	Back
Close	i ~ ɪ			u ~ ʊ
Middle		ɔ ~ œ ~ o	e/a/ɛ ~ ə