Cásenec (DEPRECATED)

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Edit: It's not a conworld. It's a container for conlangs.

Cásenec [ˈcəː.çə.ɲəʔ] is the conworld that I started few days ago. I realised that "fun facts" are the best method of describing conworlds. So I start with...

Cásenec Fun Fact #1

One of southern languages, Nénnec [ˈɲəɲ.ɲəʔ], has only 8 phonemes:
/p c~ʔ/ p c
/ɸ ç/ f s
/m ɲ/ m n
/ə əː/ e a

Stress is irregular and marked with acute accent. /c/ has allophone [ʔ] word-finally.

This language evolved from Ŋalnut, which had pretty normal consonant inventory. There are the sound changes from Ŋalnut to Nénnec:

/pʰ p tʰ t kʰ k ʔ/ > /ɸ p ç c ç c ∅/
/s h/ > /ç ∅/
/m n ŋ/ > /m ɲ ɲ/
/r l j w/ > /ɲ ɲ ç ∅/
/a i u/ > /ə ə ə/
/aa ai au/ > /əː əçə əː/
/ia ii iu/ > /əçə əçə əçə/
/ua ui uu/ > /əː əçə əː/

Combinations vowel+nasal changed into /əː/ (before /l/ and /r/ changed into nasals).
Ŋalnut has very untypical accent:
-if word has /a/, first /a/ is accented;
-else, if word has /u/, first /u/ is accented;
-else, first /i/ is accented.
This accent preserved in Nénnec as an irregular accent.

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Cásenec Fun Fact #2

The history of Cásenec is not uniform - it is divided into Five Ages:
1. The First Age, The Age of Tribes, was a period in which centralization was just beginning to take place, and most of the languages ​​of this era were creoles created from local tribal languages. At this time, people began to make iron, but bronze was still the most common material for making weapons (e.g. spears). Iron Age equivalent.
2. The Second Age, The Age of Bloom, was a time when states began to gain power, turning into empires fighting bloody wars. Creoles began to have dialects that would later become new languages ​​that would later give rise to entire language families. People have developed intellectually, and iron has completely replaced bronze, although spears have not yet fallen into disuse. The equivalent of ancient times.
3. The Third Age, The Age of Belief, is an era in which intellectual decline occurs and the world is ruled by the leaders of various cults, churches and other religious organizations. People see no point in life beyond alcohol and tavern fights. People go on crusades with swords in their hands (no one uses spears anymore), murdering with prayers in their mouths. The equivalent of the Middle Ages.
4. The Fourth Age, The Age of Recovery, will be the time when people start thinking about something other than another beer. New inventions will come that will improve the lives of ordinary people. The equivalent of the Renaissance.
5. The Fifth Age, The Age of Technique, will be a period of intense change caused by high levels of technology. The modern times equivalent.
After 5th Age, humanity will declare nuclear war and whole world will turn into radioactive wasteland.

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Cásenec Fun Fact #3

Cásenec consists of four continents: northern Ātsar, southern Raam, eastern Katókan and western Uear, which are equivalent to: Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. In the center is the Zŭa Ocean, from which extend four seas: the northeastern Ōtasno, the southeastern Taeki, the southwestern Rsoe, and the northwestern Ksaayum. All 4 continents stretch beyond the borders of the known world, but no one has managed to get further, because the border is guarded by the Sentinels, which are titans clad from head to toe in indestructible armor. The Sentinels also guard the island of Ôkptś, located in the middle of Zŭa.

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Cásenec Fun Fact #4

Nénnec has a complex system that consists of complex connections between classes of words. The following word classes are: Fire, Sun, Tree, Water, Soil, Plant, Air, Moon, Star, Man, Spear, Sand, Stone, Bronze, Home, Enemy, Prey, Ally, Sword, Iron. They are both inflectional and derivational. Each word can have one or more.

For example: Fescéne e Cénes (emotion-Home-A ∅ sound-Man) (*Phuskar a Talixa) means "I am happy". Class Home when is with A takes 2 arguments: "what is a metaphorical home" and "what is in it". First argument is empty, and second is Cénes, which means I.

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Cásenec Fun Fact #5

Arkasian or Arkasa is the language spoken in Arkaru, which is the empire in Central Āstar. Is spoken (in III era) by 86 million people.

Phonology:
It has 18 consonants and 12 vowels.

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             Labial   Coronal    Dorsal   Laryngeal
Plosive      p b      ts t d      k g
Fricative               s z                   h ħ
Nasal          m         n         ŋ
Approximant    w         l r        j

Vowels from Proto-Arkan to Arkanian:
a á e é i í o ó u ú ə an án en én in ín on ón un ún ən
e ā i ē u ī a ū o ō / ü  ö  ī  ā  ü  ö  u  ā  o  ā  n
h' = ħ

      Front  Back
Low   i iː ʏ  u uː
Mid   e̞ e̞ː øː  o̞ o̞ː
High  a aː

Stress is always on first syllable.

Nouns can be animate or inanimate and singular or plural.

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plural -s
            Inan.  Anim.
Ergative    -/     -u
Absolutive  -e     -ü
Genitive    -u     -ö
Dative      -o     -o
Locative    -a     -u

Gender can be used in derivational way. For example, kāsus is "of swords", but kāsös is "of warriors".
Word order is strict VSO head-initial.

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Gender can be used in derivational way. For example, kāsus is "of swords", but kāsös is "of warriors".
Word order is strict VSO head-initial.

Good stuff. I like this example in particular.

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Infinitive -/
1SG -a-
1PL -ü-
2SG -o-
2PL -o-
3SG -i-
3PL -ī-
Present -/
Past -s
Future -f

There was previously an indefinite tense that was used when the time in which something happened was irrelevant, but this tense became archaic, but preserved in the so-called tenseless verbs, e.g. rar "to like". The declination of such verbs is presented below:
Infinitive -ar
1SG -ār
1PL -ör
2SG -ōr
2PL -ār
3SG -ēr
3PL -ār

Long vowels are 1.3 times longer that short.

Edit: Modifiers (adjectives+adverbs) agree with nouns with gender and plurality.