Round Robin Conlang/Observations
Thought I'd look at what our phonology looks like so far. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah
Basic inventory
Consonants
Labial | Coronal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stops / affricates |
Ejective | tsʹ | kʹ | ||||
Voiceless | p | t | ts | k | q | ||
Voiced | b | ɡ | |||||
Nasals | m | n | |||||
Fricatives | Voiceless | f | s | χ | h | ||
Voiced | v |
(No liquids thus far)
Semivowel (?) /j/
Vowels /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/; /oi/; possibly /ai/ (seriously now, is "we two" [tsoi] or [tsai] ?)
Spirant lenition
The following changes are attested:
Original | p | b | t | n | g | q |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lenited | f | v | s | ð̃ | ɣ | χ |
[ð̃ ɣ] have only been attested under spirant lenition thus far.
I would presume the process to apply regularly also to the "missing" members, ie. m, k → ṽ, x. Whether the other consonants do anything remains to be seen.
Other alternations
Gemination appears to be regular for at least buccal stops and nasals. /tsʹ/ appears to resist gemination as seen from betsʼaq.
There is also prenasalization (apparently identical with gemination for nasals).
Syllable structure
Thus far (C)V(N)(C) seems sufficient (maximal example: boimb). Only CC clusters have been observed medially, even them limited to geminates and nasal + consonant.