Kyovantic

Current conlang.

Phonology and Orthography

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatalized Postalveolar	Palatal	Labialized Palatal	Velar	Labaialized Velar	Glottal
Nasal	/m/ m	/n/ n			/ɲ/ ṅ		/ŋ/ ŋ
Plosive	/p b/ p b	/t d/ t d							/ʔ/ h
Fricative	/ɸ β/ f v	/θ ð/ þ ð	/s z/ s z	/ɕ ʑ/ ṡ ż	/ç ʝ/ k̇ ġ		/x ɣ/ k g
Affricative			/ts dz/ c x	/tɕ dʑ/ ċ ẋ
Approximant					/j ʲ/ e i	/ɥ/ u	/ɰ/ y	/w/ o
Tap		/ɾ/ r
Lateral Fricative		/ɬ ɮ/ kl gl
Lateral Approximant		/l/ l			/ʎ/ l̇

• Consonants with the dot accent can’t appear before a vowel. When the corresponding sound is before a vowel, it’s written without the accent and an i next to the consonant. (e.g. maṡ+a=masia).
• r at the end of a word is pronounced as /ð/.
• The approximants aren’t pronounced correspondingly when in between two consonants.
• When a voiced and voiceless consonant are right next to each other, they both become voiceless.
• p t are the end of a word pronounced as /p̚ t̚/, respectively.
• g in between two of the same vowel is silent.

Vowels

Tense

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i y/ e u		/ɯ u/ y o
Open-Mid		/ɜ ɞ/ a w

• Tense vowels are only pronounced when before a consonant that isn't doubled
• A vowel that is doubled has a longer sound than its original

Lax

	Front	Central	Back
Close-Mid	/e ø/ e u		/ɤ o/ y o
Open		/a ɶ/ a w

• Lax vowels are only pronounced when proceeding a doubled consonant (or tc and dx)
• A vowel that is doubled has a longer sound than its original

Diphthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close-Mid	/øʏ/ ᵫ		/oɪ/ œ
Open		/aɪ/ æ

Stress

Stress normally falls on the first syllable of a word. However, there is irregular stress. This is denoted by an acute accent on that specific syllable's vowel to show the irregularity.

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns in Kyovantic decline based on gender, number, and case. The two articles used in the languages are suffixes.

Gender

There are three genders in Kyovantic: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Their standard form is nominative singular. Each noun's gender can usually be distinguished by the letter that that noun ends with.

Masculine

Masculine nouns usually end in a consonant, a diphthong, -ta, or -se. Any word that describes something animate and male is masculine. With words that can be different genders (e.g. teacher, student), the masculine version always ends in a consonant.

Feminine

Feminine nouns usually end in -a, -e, -o, -u, -y, -ð, or -amg. Any word that describes something animate and female is feminine. With words that can be different genders (e.g. teacher, student), the feminine version always ends in -a.

Neuter

Neuter nouns usually end in -e, -o, -g, or any doubled vowel. Any word that describes something animate and the gender is not known or the gender is neither male nor female is neuter. With words that can be different genders (e.g. teacher, student), the neuter version always ends in -e.

Articles

There are two morphological articles in Kyovantic. One is mainly assumed.

Indefinite

The indefinite article isn't shown through a suffix, prefix, or separate word. Usually it's just assumed through the noun by itself, however, in certain situations, numbers can be used to express something similar to the indefinite article.

Definite

The definite article is a suffix that changes depending on gender, but not number nor case.

Partitive

The partitive article is a suffix that changes depending on gender, but not number nor case.