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El-Eicib is the language of Eiciba and is the lingua franca of the varying traveler tribes within the country.

Phonology and Orthography

El-Eicib is written using the Arabic Script in the modern day, with the Coptic script being mostly used for religious Kemetic ceremonies. The Franko, or Franko-Arabizi, alphabet is an informal alphabet sometimes used in informal communication online between friends, and will be used below for ease of use.

Consonants

Romanization is shown through a letter surrounded by parentheses where the romanization is different than the symbol in the IPA.

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Epiglottal	Glottal
Affricate				t̠ʃ (6)
Plosive	m			n			k (c), g		ʔ (2)
Nasal	b			t, d
Fricative		f	ð (v)	s, z	ʃ (4)	x (5)		ħ (7), ʕ(3)	h
Approximant				l	j(y)		w
Tap/Trill				r

Vowels

	Front	Middle	Back
Close	i(ee)		u
Close-mid	e, I (i)		o
Middle		(ə)
Front	æ, a2/2a		a

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