Pitenet language
Pitenet (ⰓⰔⰏⰙⰓⰉ ⰈⰠⰋⰍ, rsmōri ẓīk, [ˈrsmɤːri ˈzʲiːk̚]), also known as Pitenetid, is a Neo-Chotarian language spoken mainly in Doyotia, the other southernmost regions of the Lutoborian Banner, and the transmarine Zemayan exclave of Užjūris. Pitenet is closely related to Lacrean, having developed from the local Old Lacrean dialect of the Chotarian Circuit of Rozman after the Secote conquest of the 11th century, influenced by Gergote, Undughu dialects, and the Secotic languages.
| Pitenet | |
|---|---|
| ⰓⰔⰏⰙⰓⰉ ⰈⰠⰋⰍ, rsmōri ẓīk | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈrsmɤːri ˈzʲiːk̚] |
| Spoken in | Northern Outer Joriscia |
| Native speakers | 46,000,000 |
| Language family | Chotaric
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| Writing system | Vladykast script |
| Official status | |
| Official language in |  Doyotia |
In contrast to the vast majority of Chotaric languages, which invariably stress the first syllable of every word, in Pitenet this stress falls on the penultimate syllable. The redistribution of stress from Old Lacrean led to the general collapse of the antepenultimate syllable in inherited vocabulary, meaning that Pitenet is characterised by initial consonant clusters that are largely unknown in Lacrean itself. The Pitenet vowel inventory is also slightly narrower than that of Lacrean, normatively including only five vowels, a /a/, e /ɪ/, o /ɤ/, i /i/, u /ɯ/, and their lengthened forms.
Until the fall of Great Doyotia (1754), and in practice considerably later, Pitenet was written in a variant of the Messenian script. The modern Vladykast system for Pitenet is largely modelled on the Lacrean Vladykast alphabet. In the 18th and 19th centuries, during their domination of Doyotia, Lacreans attempted to promote a form of written Pitenet based on an approximation of Lacrean orthography, but this was never widespread and fell into disuse by the turn of the 20th century. The term 'Pitenet' itself is an exonym, deriving from a Lutoborian term for southerners; the word rsmōri descends from 'Rozman'.