Sakhi

Sakhi is a language spoken by feminists who had formerly been part of Thaoa. They had previously been a very aggressive military empire, at times the most aggressive on the planet, but when the Thaoan women realized that the tribes their soldiers were attacking were ruled entirely by women, they blocked their army and forced the soldiers back home. The women then signed a peace treaty called the Feminist Compact with their enemies, and abolished their own military.

Phonology

Sakhi was a northern dialect of Thaoa which early on gained vowel length and lost distinctive aspiration. Most long vowels arose from vowels that had previously been followed by a glottal stop. Thus, the glottal stop was eliminated. The phonology of classical Thaoa had been (consonants only)

l  j  h  k  kʰ ŋ  p  pʰ m  t  tʰ  n  s  x  š  b  ž  č  ň  ʔ

Unlike Palli, the dialect that became Sakhi reflected Thaoa's early /v/ phoneme as b, and it therefore was not included in the later sound change that devoiced all fricatives. Thus proto-Sakhi /b/ usually corresponded to proto-Palli /f/ (later /h/). Sakhi soon gained a new /f/ phoneme, however, because it changed all of its aspirated stops to fricatives. The postalveolar affricate č behaved as aspirated in this shift, and therefore merged with š. The alveolar stop /tʰ/ became /h/, not /s/.

And in early Sakhi it was

l  j  h  k  ŋ  p  f  m  t  n  s  x  š  b  ž  ň  g  d  

The vowel system was unchanged, remaining

a e i o u y

Except for the new vowel length contrast.

Note that the /g/ phoneme above was originally a stop, but it became a fricative later on. The same symbol is used for both for the sake of simplicity, since they never became contrastive.