Metin

General information
Metin is a language spoken by about 57 trillion people in the Metii'nz'ou'ku and the surrounding areas, like Koryouz'ou'ku and Ishnnai'zou'ku. Metin is a Lingua Franca rather than a native language, it was spoken in its true form about 50 millenia ago at the founding of Metii'nz'ou'ku, since then, it has split into many daughter languages, which use old Metin as a language of common communication.

Vowels
Phonemes with * are marginal

''Letters in parantheses are romanizations. Sequences of sounds that could be confused for digraphs are seperated by a dash ( sx, /ʃ/ vs. s-x, /sx/).''

Note on romanization
The following consonants have differing romanizations depending on whether or not they are syllable initial or final

/θ/: tj at beginning of syllables, t at the end.

tján: /θán/, ket: /keθ/

/ð/: dj at beginning of syllables, d at the end.

djęę: /ðæ:/, uud: /u:ð/

/j/: y at beginning of syllables, yy at the end. (syllable final /j/ sounds more similar to /ʝ/

yį́ns: /jɨ́ns/, dayy: /daʝ

/ɣ/: G at beginning of syllables, g at the end.

Gáiɬ: /ɣáiɬ/, meeg: /me:ɣ/.

Consonants
The consonants marked with apostrophes are lateral sounds

To pronounce them, put the tip of your tongue at the base of your bottom teeth. Then, bend the rest of your tongue upwards until the center of your tongue is pressed against the base of the top teeth. Then, make a plosive, nasal, fricative, or lateral with your tongue in this position. You should sound like you have a lisp.

Plosive consonants and fricatives make a three-way distinction, voiceless, voiced, and breathy. v~w is considered an approximant, although it surfaces as the voiced bilabial fricative v before or after labial vowels. All fricatives, even aspirated ones, may occur at the end of syllables. There is no breathy Gh, nor are there p or b sounds (except in rare circumstances). The only consonant clusters in the Metin language are affricates and l clusters, such as kl, tl, dl, and dlh. l clusters may be voiceless, voiced or breathy. There are also x clusters, px, tx, tx', and Tx, there are only 4, and they are always voiceless.

Nasals are  only distinguished from eachother in the onset of a syllable, at the end of a syllable, they become the archiphoneme m*, which represents a nasal which agrees with the following consonant in place of articulation. If followed by a vowel, m* becomes, /m/.

Approximants can also carry no secondary articulations. There is also an archiphoneme for syllable final approximants, that is l*. l* becomes ł before voiceless non-retroflex consonants, r before retroflex consonants, vowels, and voiced consonants, and l before voiced palatal and dental consonants.

Vowels
Vowels are divided into two groups, normal and lateral.

A normal vowel has the tongue held straight during production. They cannot occur after a lateral or retroflex consonant.They are divided int three groups. The first group is the fronted vowels, or palatals, which are are i, e and ę. The neutral mid vowels are į, ą, and a. . The final group is the back vowels, or labial vowels, u, o and ǫ.

A lateral vowel is produced with the tip of the tongue at the base of the teeth and the rest of the tongue bent upwards. Frontness and backness are not distinguished, only openness and labialness. There are only two pure lateral vowels, unlabialized iy and labialized uy, the other lateral vowels are dipthongs with iy and uy, aay is a dipthong of aa and iy, oy is a dipthong of o and uy.

Phonotactics
A syllable may optionally have an onset with any one consonant or the permitted consonant clusters (listed in consonants section). The nucleus must consist of a vowel or sequence of vowels (vowels do not dipthongize, rather a sequence of vowels is pronounced with each vowel distinct.) The (optional) coda may be any fricative (including h and other breathy fricatives, which may be prenasalized.

Permitted syllables

v

ú, uu, e, į

cv

kiá, mái, klǫ, déé

cvc

kiis, naɬ, meZ

cvcc

maanh, kuíny, plóóns, dant, yǫ́h

Grammar
Metin is a polysynthetic, VSO language with most grammatical information indicated on the verb

Vocab brainstorming and stuff
I'll make this into something coherent later

moó (moyot): folding, isolation

moilǫ: a fold sxumoó: a tucked away place

komor: a shirt (usually plain)

gaii: to wear, have on person gaiinmág: an article of clothing

logedun: clothing, an outfit

calą́: a photon

tsia: to radiate (light) lots'ian: radiation

lhó: to revertebrate lolhorun: sound

bheey: to call, make a loud noise

iynjime: vec

(a)ma: toe

maayy-: foot

uk- leg

tanm-arm

hią́x: nail

cakoorqa: knuckle

koorqa-: wrist

koorma-: ankle

koq'uk-: knee

koortanm-: elbow

koq'ín: shoulder

koortawan: hips

í: shoulders, broad part of back

taaw: waist

u-jxu-: head

danm-: eye

cxiyy-: ear

fę́ns-:back

xáts: nose

iwinm: cheek

Jhuiyy-: jaw

(a)lyosx-: mouth

tawan: waist

ih-: body

dzhíns: body, torso

(m)otǫǫ́: appendage, arm

(a)qa: finger

qaayy-: hand