Omves

Consonants
Fricatives and affricates are voiced intervocalically or after a nasal, e.g. the /v/ in 'Omves'.

Nasals commonly assimilate in both voicing and place to a follow plosive or fricative.

Consonants are romanized as their IPA symbols, except for  ʃ ('sh', when voiced 'zh'),  ç ('c', when voiced 'j'),  ɾ ('r'),  ɺ ('rl'), j ('y') and  ʔ (' ' ').

/ ɺ/ is a rare consonant and only found in certain dialects while most speakers pronounce as / ɾ /.

Vowels
A front vowel will become rounded before a bilabial consonant, unless it is preceded by an velar consonant. [+front] > [+rounded] / _{mpb} ! {kg}_. Close-mid vowels become near-close in unstressed syllables. e [-stressed] > ɪ and o [-stressed] > ʊ.

These changes are not shown in the romanization.

There is vowel harmony shown in the verb morphology. The first vowel in the root or derived word is used to determine whether the front or back agglugnating prefixes are used.

Phonotactics
(C)V(C) structure. Words have a tendency to start with a vowel that is followed by two consonants. For example, 'omv' in 'Omves'.

Stress
Stress lands on the first syllable of the main morpheme.

Examples
Omves - [oɱvɪs]

Rla'ep - [ɺaʔʏp]

Verbs
Verbs are usually constructed by adding suffixes to other words. For example, on means speech and su means to do, so to speak/say is onzu. Verbs conjugate to show mood and voice, and agree in number with the main argument. Each suffix has two forms which are chosen depending on the last vowel in the root.

Here is a fully conjugated verb: onzulkoro speech.do.IND.REP.PAS.PLU

Because verbs do not conjugate to show tense, the third person pronouns are instead used to show the past tense. The pronoun is put after the main argument with which it agrees in number. This is usually only done for the past, but in special cases it may be done for the non-past as well.

Negative clauses are created by switching the verb's first two syllables and adding the prefix te- e.g. tezuonulkoro. Both subject and object are placed in the accusative case in negative clauses.

Adding -(e)s to a verb root makes the action involuntary. For example, onko means to listen and onkos means to hear.

Word Order
SOV. Pronouns may be put after the verb on dropped entirely if their meaning is clear from context.

Nouns
Restrictive adjectives or relative clauses and determiners go before a noun, and unrestrictive adjectives or relative clauses go after a noun.

Nouns decline for several cases and three numbers. They do not show any kind of vowel harmony, unlike the verb conjugation. For examples, omvesyau is omves in the accusative plural.

Some adjectives can only go with animate nouns; to solve this problem an -i can be added to an inanimate noun to allow it to be used with an animate-only adjectives. This suffix can also be a method of expressing personification. For example, aras means happy, but since inanimate objects cannot literally be happy, the noun phrase the happy book would be aras isi.

Particles
There are some particles that can have a noun phrase before or after them which adjusts their meaning. For example, the particle ufko means to for a noun phrase before it, or from for a following noun phrase. These particles can have a noun phrase both before and after it, as well. For example, from the tall boy to the person would be sonvau ufko sereli tec. Nouns are left in their plain form when used with a particle.

Adjectives
TODO -i makes adjective animate unless adjective is animate only

Copula
The copula i is used just like a normal verb. It is, however, irregular.