Pastok is an auxlang, though not one that actually strives to become an international language. It is only created for the sheer challenge of creating a conlang that could potentially be spoken by as many people as possible on Earth. For this reason the phonemic inventory is rather small, and several phonological constraints exist for ease of pronunciation. Yet homonyms are avoided at all costs. Pastok has borrowed all of its words from other languages. There are 49 languages that have been especially prioritized in word borrowing and phonology: Modern Standard Arabic, Mossi (Mòoré), Yoruba, Swahili, Armenian, Albanian, Tamil, Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Mongolian, Hungarian, Finnish, Vietnamese, Indonesian/Malay, Mandarin, Burmese, Thai, Quiché (K'iche'), Quechua, (Paraguayan) Guaraní, Tok Pisin, Tashelhiyt, Hausa, Oromo, Fula, Akan (Twi dialect), Kanuri, Bambara, Telugu, (White) Hmong, Persian, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, English, Russian, Ancient Greek, Portuguese, Bengali, French, Japanese, German, Punjabi, Javanese, Marathi, Korean, Italian, Wu (Shanghai dialect), Cantonese (Canton dialect). All major language families, and major branches of the largest families, are present among these 49 languages.
Phonology
Pulmonic consonants
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Labiodental
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Dental
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Retroflex
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Palatal
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Velar
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Uvular
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Epiglottal
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Glottal
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/m/ <m> |
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/n/ <n> |
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[ŋ] <ɡ> |
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/t/ <t> |
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/k/ <k> |
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/tʃ/ <c> |
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[f] <f> |
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/h/ <h> |
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[ʋ] <w> |
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[r] <r> |
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/l/ <l> |
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Pulmonic consonants
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Bilabial
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Labiodental
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Dental
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Alveolar
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Postalveolar
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Retroflex
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Palatal
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Velar
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Uvular
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Pharyngeal
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Epiglottal
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/m/ <m> |
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/n/ <n> |
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[ŋ] <g> |
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/m/ <m> |
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/t/ <t> |
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/k/ <k> |
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