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Regropian language

Phonology

Regropian and its sister languages are phonologically distinct from their immediate neighbours for their prenasalised consonants, and nasal apophony in verb inflection. Regropian also regained the pharyngeal consonant after it was lost in Old Regropian when /ʔ/ evolved into /ʡ/. Spoken Regropian is partially mutually intelligible to Vasurian, while in its written form, word cognates are easily read and understood.

	Caric	Regropo-Vasurian	Regropian	Vasurian	Remarks
lioness	*buaʔuɲãlsə	*ũɢwaɬãji	ŋgwelañ	walaim	buaʔ → ũɢwa → ᵑɡ (RG), wa (VA) uɲ → Ø ãlse → ɬãji → lañ → laim
meat	*ʃid͡z̪ʷe	*ixd͡z̪ʷe	xijwe	xiśe
stone	*ʔeãɣ	*enɣə	ẽŋe	ege
poison	*wɔmbwulumɘ̃	*wõbuln	õmbyañ	óplam
kettle	*unbɯlud̺ɛ̃	*nbɯ̃lnðéiŋ	mbü̃lndén	bulten
jump	*xund̪ʷ *wɑ̃ɯ̃n	*ndokwĩwãĩ	ndĩñgyõy	cíñgën

Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Pharyngeal
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Stop	Voiceless	p	t		c	k	ʡ
	Prenasalised	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ
Affricate	Voiceless		t͡ʃ
	Prenasalised		ⁿd͡ʒ
Fricatives	Voiceless	ɸ	θ	s	ɕ	x
	Prenasalised		ⁿð	ⁿz	ᶮʑ
Approximants			l		j	w
Rhotic			r ~ ɾ

Vowels

	Front				Central		Back
	Rounded		Unrounded
	Plain	Nasal	Plain	Nasal	Plain	Nasal	Plain	Nasal
High	i	ĩ	y	ỹ	ʉ	ʉ̃	u	ũ
Close-mid	e	ẽ	ø	ø̃	ɘ	ɘ̃	o	õ
Low	a	ã

Grammar

Regropian is a head-marking, strongly verb-initial language, and features verb-subject-object word order. Like most Caric languages, Regropian words feature a high degree of synthesis, polypersonal agreement and auxiliary verbs. Due to its proximity to Vasurian, a cousin language within the Regropo-Vasurian branch of Caro-Valdic languages, Regropian contains significant borrowings from Vasurian lexicon.

Cases in Regropian have all but disappeared, except for the vocative.