Craintie

Craintie (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." Craintie 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] [b]		[t] <t> [d] <d>					[k] <c> [g] <g>			[ʔ] <h>
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

PHONOLOGY:

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

Diphthongs

PHONOLOGY:

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

ORTHOGRAPHY:

	Front	Back
Close-Mid	ey eu øy	oe ou
Open	ae au

* All of these diphthongs' sounds are lengthened when an acute accent is added on the first letter. This also puts the stress on that diphthong's syllable.

** When a diaeresis is placed on the second letter of a supposed diphthong, it tells you that each vowel is pronounced separately. Also, if there is an acute accent on the second letter in a supposed diphthong, it tells you that each letter is pronounced separately and the vowel with the acute accent's syllable is stressed.

Stress

Stress is usually on the second to last syllable of a word. The stress of a certain syllable can be changed when that syllable's vowel or diphthong has an acute on it. Another exception is when adding the definite article suffix; even though another syllable may be added, the stress is the same as if that suffix was not there. There are few other exception, but when there are, those must me memorized.