Kyovantic

Current conlang.

Phonology and Orthography

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatalized Postalveolar	Palatal	Labialized Palatal	Velar	Labaialized Velar	Glottal
Nasal	/m/ m	/n/ n			/ɲ/ ṅ		/ŋ/ ŋ
Plosive	/p b/ p b	/t d/ t d							/ʔ/ h
Fricative	/ɸ β/ f v	/θ ð/ þ ð	/s z/ s z	/ɕ ʑ/ ṡ ż	/ç ʝ/ k̇ ġ		/x ɣ/ k g
Affricative			/ts dz/ c x	/tɕ dʑ/ ċ ẋ
Approximant					/j/ i	/ɥ/ ü	/ɰ/ y	/w/ w
Tap		/ɾ/ r
Lateral Fricative		/ɬ ɮ/ kl gl
Lateral Approximant		/l/ l			/ʎ/ l̇

• Consonants with the dot accent can’t appear before a vowel. When the corresponding sound is before a vowel, it’s written without the accent and an i next to the consonant. (e.g. maṡ+a=masia).
• r at the end of a word is pronounced as /ð/.
• The approximants aren’t pronounced correspondingly when in between two consonants.
• When a voiced and voiceless consonant are right next to each other, they both become voiceless.
• p t are the end of a word pronounced as /p̚ t̚/, respectively.
• g in between two of the same vowel is silent.

Vowels

Tense

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i y/ e u		/ɯ u/ y o
Open-Mid		/ɜ ɞ/ a w

Lax

	Front	Central	Back
Close-Mid	/e ø/ e u		/ɤ o/ y o
Open		/a ɶ/ a w

• When unstressed, a e are realized as both /ə/.
• The /ə/ sound is usually dropped completely when the unstressed syllable containing a e is directly before the stressed syllable.
• When unstressed and at the end of a word, a e o u are raised to /ɐ ɪ ʊ ʏ/, respectively.
• i ü w y are pronounced as /j ɥ w ɰ/, respectively, when before, after, or in between vowels.
• Doubled vowels have a longer sounds.

Diphthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close-Mid	/øʏ/ ᵫ		/oɪ/ œ
Open		/aɪ/ æ

Stress

Stress normally falls on the first syllable of a word. However, there is irregular stress. This is denoted by an acute accent on that specific syllable's vowel to show the irregularity.