View source for Ilog-kwa

My first serious attempt at a constructed language, started July 2006.  A work in (very) slow progress.

=Phonology=

Phonemes:
/p t k/   <'''p t k'''>

/m n N/   <'''m n g'''>

/l j w/   <'''l y w'''>

/s S h/   <'''s x h'''>

/ts tS/   <'''ts tx'''> (I am not sure if these are phonemes; they only occur across syllable boundaries).

/a e i o u/     <'''a e i o u'''>

Allophones:
/T/     <'''t'''-coda followed by stop or nasal>

/x/     <'''k'''-coda followed by stop or nasal>

/K/     <'''l'''-coda followed by h> 

There is no phonemic voicing or aspiration distinction.

From here on, I will write in the orthography.

==Phonotactics==

Syllables may take these structures: (C) (C) V (C).

Legal onsets: null, any consonant, any non-approximant consonant + 1 approximant, '''l''' + '''w''' or '''y'''.

Legal nuclei: any vowel.

Legal codas: Any consonant, with the following execptions: '''p''' cannot be a coda. '''y''' cannot be the coda in a syllable with an '''e''' or '''i''' nucelus.  '''w''' cannot be the coda in a syllable with an '''o''' or '''u''' nucleus.

==Sandhi and Allophony==

'''t''' and '''k''' codas are spirantized when they are followed by a nasal or a stop, i.e. '''t''' becomes /T/ and '''k''' becomes /x/.

When '''l''' occurs next to '''h''' in either sequence, the resulting sound is /K/.

The silibants have a strong tendency to be voiced when they occur next to nasals.