Siberian Dwarvish

General information
Siberian Dwarvish, as the name suggests, is spoken by a community of some 500 dwarves who live in the Siberian mountains. The dwarves are a quiet folk who keep to themselves. They are softly-spoken, pleasant and peaceful, and are very hospitable to outsiders. The dwarves have mostly red or black hair and have long, bushy beards. They have lots of freckles and have chinese-like faces. Their language is an isolate and is very pure, having very little grammatical or lexical influence from any other language. It is quite a simple, unsophisticated language that reflects the simple life the dwarves live. The language has a small root vocabulary, and relies heavily on combining roots together to form compounds. Other than this, it is a strongly isolating language. The language is right-branching with SVO word order.

Phonology
Siberian Dwarvish has 20 consonant phonemes and seven vowels. The language makes a distinction between hard (non-palatalized) and soft (palatalized) forms for most of its consonants. There is no phonemic vowel length or tone, and there are no diphthongs.

Allophony
/l/ and /lʲ/ are realized as [ɾ] and [ɾʲ] respectively when appearing morpheme-medially between two vowels. They are /l/ and /lʲ/ when adjacent to a consonant or when morpheme-initial. Neither phoneme occurs morpheme-finally. Voiceless /h/ may be voiced intervocalically. There is little to no allophony in the vowel system.

Phonotactics
Roots may be up to three syllables in length. The majority are disyllabic. The syllable structure of monosyllabic, disyllabic and trisyllabic roots is as follows; monosyllabic: (C)VC, disyllabic: (C)V(C)CVC, trisyllabic: (C)V(C)CV(C)CVC. Roots may not begin in /ɬ/ or /ɬʲ/. The consonants /h/, /m/, /mʲ/, /n/, /nʲ/ and /j/ are illegal in the syllable coda. /l/ and /lʲ/ are illegal in morpheme-final codas, but may occur in non-final codas. The CV combinations /ji/ and /jɨ/ are impossible.

Orthography
Siberian Dwarvish has its own script which will be published on here soon. It may also be written in the Latin alphabet. The tables below show each consonant and each vowel and its Latin transcription. The phonemes /l/ and /lʲ/ are spelled as  and  respectively when realised with the [ɾ] and [ɾʲ] allophone (in intervocalic position).