| Oncheran | |
|---|---|
| Ontssera saba | |
| Native to | Onchera |
| Ethnicity | Oncheran people |
| Speakers | |
| Native speakers | 120 million |
| Classification | |
| Family tree | Mira › Batea |
| Ancestors | Proto-Mira › Proto-Batea › Proto-Oncheran › Old Oncheran |
Oncheran is an agglutinative language spoken in Onchera.
Classification
Oncheran belongs to the Mira language family.
Phonology
Vowels
Oncheran has a five-vowel system.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i IPA : /i/ | u IPA : /u/ | |
| Mid | e IPA : /e/ | o IPA : /o/ | |
| Low | a IPA : /a/ |
Proto-Oncheran distinguished vowel length, but this distinction collapsed during the Old Oncheran dialect period. The collapse produced significant vowel variation across modern dialects, particularly between island communities.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m IPA : /m/ | n IPA : /n/ | ||||
| Stop | p IPA : /p/ b IPA : /b/ | t IPA : /t/ d IPA : /d/ | k IPA : /k/ g IPA : /g/ | |||
| Affricate | tss IPA : /tʃ/ dzz IPA : /dʒ/ | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ IPA : /ɸ/ β IPA : /β/ | s IPA : /s/ z IPA : /z/ | ss IPA : /ʃ/ zz IPA : /ʒ/ | ʝ IPA : /ʝ/ | h IPA : /h/ | |
| Lateral | l IPA : /l/ ll IPA : /ɬ/ | |||||
| Rhotic | r IPA : /r/ |
Orthographic conventions
Several digraphs represent single phonemes:
Phonotactics
[TBD — syllable structure, permitted clusters, coda restrictions, stress]
Grammar
Oncheran is an agglutinative language with subject–verb–object (SVO) basic word order. Grammatical relations are primarily marked through suffixes attached to nominal stems.
Morphology
Words are built by stacking suffixes onto stems. Each suffix typically encodes a single grammatical function.
Morpheme order in noun phrases
Within a possessive compound, the order is:
: POSSESSOR – GENITIVE – HEAD – CASE
Morphophonology
A stem-final IPA : /a/ deletes before the genitive suffix -pi:
: Tssera + -pi → Tsserpi-
Further morphophonological rules are [TBD].
Case
Two cases are currently documented:
| Case | Suffix | Function | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genitive | -pi | Marks possessor ("of") | Tsserpi bura — "the Tsseras' home" |
| Locative | -m | Marks location ("in", "at") | buram — "at home" |
Additional cases are [TBD].
Verbs
[TBD — tense, aspect, mood, agreement, negation]
Pronouns
[TBD]
Lexicon
Sample vocabulary
| Oncheran | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| bura | home | Appears with locative as buram |
| Tssera | (dynastic name) | Name of a dynasty |
Dialects
Modern Oncheran exhibits substantial vowel variation across dialects, originating in the dialect fragmentation of the Old Oncheran period, when phonemic vowel length was lost along divergent pathways in different regions. Island communities preserve particularly distinct vowel systems.
Specific dialect descriptions are [TBD].
History
Proto-Mira
The deepest reconstructed ancestor of Oncheran. [TBD]
Proto-Batea
The ancestor of Oncheran and its sister languages. [TBD]
Proto-Oncheran
Distinguished phonemic vowel length. [Further detail TBD]
Old Oncheran
Period during which Proto-Oncheran vowel length was lost, with divergent outcomes in different dialect regions. This dialect fragmentation is the source of modern vowel variation.
Modern Oncheran
[TBD]
Writing system
[TBD]
See also
- [TBD — links to related pages once they exist]