Round Robin Conlang/Observations

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Thought I'd look at what our phonology looks like so far. --Trɔpʏliʊmblah

Basic inventory

Consonants

Labial Coronal Velar Uvular Glottal
Stops /
affricates
Ejective tsʹ
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.