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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Close</small> || || {{IPA|i(ː)}} || || || || || || ||  || {{IPA|u(ː)}}
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Close</small> || || {{IPA|i(ː)}} || || || || || || ||  || {{IPA|u(ː)}}
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Near close</small> || || || {{IPA|ɪ}} || || || || || {{IPA|ʊ}} || ||  
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Near close</small> || || || || || || || || || ||  
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Close mid</small> || || {{IPA|e}} || || || || || || || || {{IPA|o}}
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Close mid</small> || || {{IPA|e(ː)}} || || || || || || || || {{IPA|o(ː)}}
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Open mid</small> || || {{IPA|ɛː}} || {{IPA|œ}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ɔː}}
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Mid</small> || || || || || {{IPA|ə(ː)}} || || || || ||  
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Near open</small> || || || {{IPA|æ}} || || || || || || ||
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Open</small> || || || || || {{IPA|a(ː)}} || || || ||
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|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| <small>Open</small> || || || || || {{IPA|aː}} || || || {{IPA|ɑ}} ||
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In Teycil studies, the vowels are grouped in three sets:
Every vowel can be distinctively short and long.
 
* Long vowels {{IPA|[aː], [ɛː], [iː], [ɔː], [uː]}} are called ''strong vowels''
* Short vowels {{IPA|[ɑ], [e], [i], [o], [u]}} are called ''normal vowels''
* Some vowels, usually born by some kind of reduction of ancient vowels or diphtongs, {{IPA|[æ], [ɪ], [ɶ], [ʊ]}}, are called ''weak vowels''
 
As these names are more practical, we will keep on using them while speaking about vowels in this description.


While the strong vowels are thought to be only the long counterparts of normal (short) vowels, the difference is also in quality for three of them.
No dipthongs are allowed. If two vowel are adiacent in a compound word, a glottal stop ({{IPA|[ʔ]}}) emerges to keep them separated.


===Diphtongs===
===Diphtongs===

Revision as of 10:25, 26 April 2020

Qihep (in Qihep: Qixēp) is a constructed fantasy language

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
Bilabial Labio-
dental		 Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Labialized
velar		 Labialized
velar
Plosive p b t d k g kʷ (ʔ)1
Nasal m (ɱ)2 n ɲ (ŋ)3
Vibrant r
Fricative f v s ʃ x h
Affricate tʃ
Approximants j w
Lateral
approximants		 l

Note:

  • [ʔ]1is not recognised as an independent phoneme but it is interposed between two vowels, or between two identical consonants.
  • [ɱ]2 and [ŋ]3 are considered allophones of the normal nasal phonemes in front of [f]/[v] and [k]/[g]/[kʷ] respectively.

Vowels

Vowels
Front Near-
front		 Central Near-
back		 Back
Close i(ː) u(ː)
Near close
Close mid e(ː) o(ː)
Mid ə(ː)
Open a(ː)

Every vowel can be distinctively short and long.

No dipthongs are allowed. If two vowel are adiacent in a compound word, a glottal stop ([ʔ]) emerges to keep them separated.

Diphtongs

Teycil is full of diphtongs. Nonetheless the only diphtong pattern allowed is Vj or Vw. While Vw-type diphtongs can be found in every position inside a word, Vj-type diphtongs can be found only inside a stressed syllable.

As the stress can move on every syllable of the word as it undergoes morphological changes, the Vj-type diphtongs can undergo something like a reduction process, turning into the so-called weak vowels:

  • [ɑj] ai → [æ] æ
  • [oj] oi → [œ] œ
  • [uj] ui → [ʊ] ů
  • [ej] ei → [ɪ] î

Examples:

  • Paic [ˈpɑik] → pæca [pæˈkɑ]
  • Glayc [ˈglɑiʧ] → glæjcīne [glæˈʧiːne]

Diphtongs with long vowel (V:j) are very rare. When unstressed they simply get shorter.

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