Onschen

Onschen

Onschen Ӯсціе
Pronounced:	/õːʃt͡ʃe/
Spoken:	Onstsamidzo
Writing system:	Sealbone Script
Genealogy:	Language isolate
Typology
Morphological type:	???
Morphosyntactic alignment:	ergative-absolutive
Basic word order:	VSO
Credits
Creator:	Malcolm G. Holborne

Onschen Consonantal Phonemes

		Bilabial	Coronal		Palatal	Velar
			Central	Lateral
Nasal	Plain	м [m]	н/ӈ [n̪]
	Pal.	мі [mʲ]	ні/ӈі [n̪ʲ]
Stop	Plain	п [p] б [b]	т [t̪] д [d̪]			к [k] г [g]
	Pal.	пі [pʲ] бі [bʲ]	ті [t̪ʲ] ді [d̪ʲ]			кі [kʲ] гі [gʲ]
Affricate			ц [t͡s] ѕ [d͡z]		ці/ч [t͡ʃ] ѕі/џ [d͡ʒ]
Fricative	Plain	ф [f]	с [s]		сі/ш [ʃ]	х [x]
	Pal.	фі [fʲ]				хі [xʲ]
Liquid	Plain		р [r]	л [l]	і [j]
	Pal.		рі [rʲ]	лі [lʲ]
Click			ҭ [ǀ]	ԯ [ǁ]	қ [ǂ]

Vowel Phonemes

Type	Front		Back
	Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal
Close	и [i]		у [u]
Mid	е [e]	ӣ [ẽː]	о [o]	ӯ [õː]
Open	а [a]

Diphthongs

Type	Front		Back
	Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal
Mid-Rising	еі [ei̯]	ӣі [ẽi̯]	оі [oi̯]	ӯі [õi̯]
Open-Rising	аі [ai̯]