Tēsu-Arar Language

Tēsu-Arar (/teːsu aɹaɹ/) is a Tesian language of the Durimic, or Northern Navari, branch, spoken across the Haraz Basin and much of the central Deresmar plains, with Duric Tēsu-Arar constituting the best-described standard and deriving historically from the classical register. It displays a predominantly (C)V(C) syllable structure and regular penultimate stress, with productive epenthesis, typically [ə], in cluster repair and phonotactic smoothing. Its consonant inventory is distinguished by a stable retroflex series /ʈ ɖ ʂ ʐ ɳ/ and a strong fricative set including /x ɣ/, while the vowel system of the standard language is commonly analysed as /i y e ɛ a ɨ o u/. Although ordinarily treated as nontonal, the language preserves limited high-low pitch alternation in formal recitation. Morphosyntactically, Tēsu-Arar is moderately agglutinative and predominantly suffixing, with basic SOV order, ergative-absolutive alignment on nominals, absolutive-indexing verbal agreement, six productive cas