Craintye

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Craintye (kreyentæ, IPA: [ˈxreɪənˌtaɪ]) is a constructed language which came under creation during November, 2010. From when it first started, it went to many changes and even more changes are most likely to come. The name of the conlang literally means "created language," or "made up language." Craintye is a priori language, despite few loan words from various different languages.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Labial-Palatal Velar Labaial-Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal /m/ <m> /ɱ/ <ṁ> /n/ <n> /ɲ/ <nh> /ŋ/ <ṅ>
Plosive /p/ <p> /b/ <b> /t/ <t> /d/ <d> /k/ <c> /g/ <g> /ʔ/ <h>
Affricative /tʃ/ <ṫ> /dʒ/ <ḋ>
Fricative /f/ <f> /v/ <v> /θ/ <þ> /ð/ <ð> /s/ <s> /z/ <z> /ʃ/ <ṡ> /ʒ/ <ż> /x/ <k> /ɣ/ <ġ>
Approximant /j/ <j> /w/ <ƿ>
Trill /r/ <r> /ʀ/ <ṙ>
Lateral Approximant /l/ <l> /ʎ/ <lh>

Vowels

  Front Central Back
Unrounded Rounded
Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long
Close [i] [iː] <ii, í> [y] <y> [yː] <yy, ý>   [u] [uː] <uu, ú>
Near-close [ɪ]   [ʏ] <y>     [ʊ]  
Close-mid [e] <e> [eː] <ee, é> [ø] <w> [øː] <ww, ẃ>   [o] <o> [oː] <oo, ó>
Mid   [ə] <e>    
Open-mid [ɛ] <e> [œ] <w>     [ɔ] <o>  
Near-open   [ɐ] <a>    
Open   [a] <a> [aː] <aa, á>

Diphthongs

PHONOLOGY:

Front Back
Close-Mid /eɪ/ /eʊ/ /øʏ/ /oɪ/ /oʊ/
Open /aɪ/ /aʊ/


Front Central Near-back Back
/i/ /y/ /u/
/ɪ/ /ʏ/ /ʊ/
Close-Mid /e/ /ø/ /o/
/ə/
Open-Mid /ɛ/ /œ/ /ɔ/
/æ/
Open /a/