Nother/Drake phonology

Vowels

Drake has a fairly standard set of vowel positions, /a e i o u/. The vowels /a i u/ may be short or long.

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Back
High	i iː							u uː
High-mid			e					o
Low					a aː

Any vowel may also have creaky voice applied: /a̰ a̰ː ḛ ḭ ḭː o̰ ṵ ṵː/.

Examples
/a/		ṭalā	/θàlaː/	"into"

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n								ŋ
Plosive					t	d							k	g
Fricative			θ	ð	s	z	ʃ		ʂ	ʐ			x	ɣ	h
Affricate									tʂ	dʐ
Approximants											j
Tap						ɾ
Lateral Approximant						l

It's unclear how /ʃ/ manages to survive on its own (or if it actually does exist as a phoneme), and whether the retroflex series is actually supposed to be retroflex; they might, perhaps, be palatal, but all I'm certain of is that my notes explicitly state them to be at a different POA than /ʃ/. Many (all?) consonants may be geminated.

Accent

Drake has a pitch accent on the penultimate syllable (2R). When the penult is long, it is a circumflex or falling accent; when it is short, it is grave; in monosyllables with an accent the accent is acute.