Minor Lenian languages
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These are ordered roughly west-to-east.
Cappini languages
Proto-Cappini was identical with Baywatch, but was grouped with the others for political reasons.
CONSONANTS:
Bilabials: p m b Alveolars: t n s l r
And the vowels were /a e i o u/ in both short and long forms. The geminates /pp ss tt/ occurred, and there were sound gaps of */te so bo lo ro/, except in a few rare words where contraction of long vowels before geminates had created new short vowels there.
Oyster languages
CONSONANTS:
PLAIN PALATALIZED
Rounded bilabials: pʷ bʷ w Bilabials: p b m pʲ bʲ mʲ Alveolars: t d n s l tʲ dʲ sʲ Postalveolars: č ǯ ň š ł Palatals: ć ǵ ń ś y (ć ǵ ń ś y) Velars: k ġ ŋ x g kʲ Labiovelars: kʷ ġʷ xʷ gʷ Uvulars: q h Rounded uvulars: qʷ hʷ
VOWELS:
a e i o u a̯ ɨ̯
The vowels in the lower row are ultrashort vowels, which are devoiced in some contexts, and are written with consonant symbols in the native alphabet.
Birch languages
Bilabials: p m f w Alveolars: t n s l Postalveolars: š y Velars: k ŋ h g
There were four vowels, and the diphthongs /ai əi au əu/. The tone system was à/ă/ā and the schwa only occurred on the low tone.
