Mevja

Phonotactics
. onset clusters can be stop+liquid, fricative+approximant and nasal+stop

Permitted onsets
A syllable may begin with a single consonant, or a permitted cluster. Known permitted clusters consist of an oral stop followed by either a liquid, or a sibilant.

Word-initially
A word may begin with a vowel, a single consonant, an oral stop followed by a liquid, or either of those preceded by a sibilant. That is, I word may begin with three consonants provided they occur in the following configuration:

Permitted nuclei
A nucleus may be a short vowel, a long vowel, or a diphthong.

Permitted codas
Any consonant may appear as a geminate, except for the palatals (ñ, j).

Word-finally
A word may end with a vowel, s, n, m, t, d, r, l, k or h. The only permissible consonant clusters word-finally are ks and gz.

Stress and syllable distribution
The maximum possible syllable structure in Mevja is CCCVCV.

. Word stress in Mevja is predictable and non phonemic and it is determined by syllable weight.

. Words with a single syllable it is automatically the first or unstressed entirely.

. words with two syllables the stress falls on the first syllable.

. words with three or more syllables, the stress is on the penultimate syllable if this is heavy, otherwise (if the syllable is a light one) on the antepenultimate syllable, i.e. the third-to-last syllable.

A syllable is light if:
 * It ends with a short vowel. This includes rising diphthongs that ends in a short vowel

A syllable is heavy if:
 * It contains with a long vowel
 * It contains a falling diphthong
 * It contains a long rising diphthong
 * It ends with a consonant or contains a cluster of two consonants
 * For syllable boundaries at the middle of a word, a good rule of thumb is that if a vowel is followed by two consonants, the first consonant is at the end of a syllable and thus the syllable is heavy. For this purpose:
 * Digraphs, such as rh, gh, lj count as a single consonant.
 * A plosive (p, t, k, kw, b, d, g) followed by a liquid (r, l, rh) or a sibilant (s, š, z)
 * Only the following consonants have phonemically geminated forms: pp, tt, kk, mm, nn, ss, ff, ll, rr, gg.

Consonant Mutation
. There are four types of consonant mutation in Mevja: 
 * 1) Lenition or Soft mutation - voiced stops to voiceless stops, voiceless stops to spirants. liquids trigger.
 * 2) Fortiton or hard mutation - fricatives to voiceless stops. broad vowels trigger.
 * 3) Nasalization - stops become a nasal of the same articulation. nasals trigger.
 * 4) Spirantization - stops to spirants. slender vowels trigger.

Vowel Processes
. There is one type of vowel processes in Mevja :  1a. i - Umlaut - the process of all vowels in a word being fronted due to an (i) suffix being attached.
 * 1) Umlaut - is a process in which the an suffix with a certain vowel either (i or u) determines the vowel quality of all other vowels in the word.

1b. U- umlaut - the process of unrounded vowels being rounded due to an (u) suffix being added.

. front harmony always takes precedence before the suffix is added and umlaut takes place.

Case
. There are nine cases in Mevja:
 * 1) Nominative - the subject of a sentence.
 * 2) Accusative - the direct object of a sentence.
 * 3) Dative - the indirect object of a sentence.
 * 4) Genitive - shows possession or origin.
 * 5) Topical -
 * 6) Ablative - shows movement.
 * 7) Essive - denotes a state of being.
 * 8) Lative - denotes a static location.
 * 9) Respective - denotes the affinity of a noun in reference to time.
 * 10) Instrumental - denotes the tool used to perform an action.
 * 11) Comitative - denotes accompaniment when the action was performed.

. Number
. There are four numbers in Mevja nouns :
 * 1) Singular - one of something.
 * 2) Dual - two of something.
 * 3) Plural - three or more of something.
 * 4) Paucal - denotes part of a whole (some, a few).

Ex: Vama - Person

People

 * 1) Vama - person / human.
 * 2) Đavu - man / hero.
 * 3) Sabi - woman.