Tejnaxi

This is my conlang, Tejnaxi. Its core has been worked for almost six years, but a few months ago it went through a massive reboot. Tejnaxi es a proto-language of sorts, more conlangs will be developed using it as a base. All the stuff included here is provisional and may be redesigned in the future.

English name Native name
Spoken in:	none
Conworld:	none
Total speakers:	1/10
Genealogical classification:	(Family) (Branch) (Subbranch) (Language)
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	Agglutinant
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Split-S Active
Created by: Xroox
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Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	p	b	t	d			k	g	ʔ
Fricative			s						h
Lateral Approximant				l
Tap				ɾ
Approximants		w				j		(w)

Allophony

• r is produced as a retroflex approximant when in coda
• l is velarized in the same environment except when is followed by a coronal.
• Voiceless plosives are unreleased un coda position.
• Nasals are lenited to w and r in intervocalic enviroments, if the syllable is unstressed.

Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Central		Back
High		i iː				u uː
Mid		e eː				o oː
Low				a aː

Allophony

• Long e and o are actually produced as ej and ow in all contexts.
• Short a is produced as schwa in unstressed enviroments.
• Short e and o are raised to i and u when unstressed.

Phonotactics

Long vowels can only occur in open syllables. Any consonant can be syllable onset, which is obligatory. An epenthetic glottal stop can be inserted. The biggest syllable structure alloved in Tejnaxi is CVRK, where R stands for aproximants, liquids, the glottal fricative and the homorganic nasal. K stands for obstruents (plosives and s).