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(ìloN kwa): My first serious attempt at a constructed language, started July 2006.  A work in (very) slow progress.
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Ilog-kwa uses 17 Roman letters to represent 17 (or 19?) phonemes.
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/p t k/  <'''p t k'''>
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/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.  The stops also tend to be voiced in certain positions.  Because voicing is non-phonemic, "wrong" voicing will not alter the meaning of any word or utterance.

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