Cocánb Standardisation Conference

The Cocánb Standardisation Conference was a conference held in 2021 by the Cocánb Academy to standardise Cocánb pronunciation and orthography. The following themes were addressed.

Proto Cocánb
thPoéo thCocán Altorn Onécmdf Bec Bftf and other documents before these changes will now be considered Proto-Cocánb. Pronunciation of any Proto-Cocánb texts will be preserved if they have been documented (such as thPoéo thCocán Altorn Onécmdf Bec Bftf)

Permitted Special Letters
For the sake of continuity, the Cocánb Academy has chosen a fixed set of special characters which may be used.

Variants of a: à, á, â, ä

Variants of e: è, é, ê

Variants of i: ì, í, î

Variants of o: ò, ó, ô, ö

Variants of u: ù, ú, û, ü

Variants of y: ý

Variants of consonants: ğ, č, š, ž, ň, ř, ł, đ, ć, ś, ź

Special characters: å, æ, œ

Use of diacritics and vowel pronunciation
The acute accent will represent a long vowel. The grave accent will represent a falling tone. The circumflex will be used for decorative purposes.

The characters ä and æ will be pronounced /æ/. The characters ö and œ will be pronounced /œ/. The character ü will be pronounced /y/. The character å will be pronounced /o/.

Use of consonants
For the sake of convenience, a chart has been made for documentation.

ğ
The character ğ has a variety of functions which must be addressed separately.


 * As an initial consonant, it represents /ɣ/.
 * After a consonant, it represents palatalisation.
 * Intervocalically, it represents /ɣ/.
 * At the end of a word, it represents /j/.
 * After a vowel but before a consonant, it represents /j/.
 * When part of the digraph iğ, it is pronounced /ei̯/.

a and y
a will be pronounced /ɐ/ and á will be pronounced /aː/

y in a diphthong or as an initial consonant will be pronounced /j/ but will be pronounced /ɨ~ɯ/. ý will always be pronounced /ɨ~ɯ/.

Complex consonant combinations
If you encounter a multigraph not mentioned above, you can find the pronunciation by mentally replacing a part of the multigraph with a multigraph or letter with the same pronunciation.

For example: dsh -> dš

Therefore, dsh is pronounced like dš.

Additional rules on spacing
When the string Cocán appears before inserting spaces, it may not be split and the first C must be capitalised.