Cuinaom

Setting
Cuinaom (IPA: kʷinao̯m) is an a-priori language created by John Stevens. It is spoken by a clan of 200 gnomes.

Phonology
Cuinaom has a fairly large phoneme inventory consisting of 33 consonants, seven vowels (each of which can occur short or long), and seven diphthongs.

Phonotactics
All Cuinaom root words are monosyllabic. Root words are either of type CV or CVC, where C stands for consonant and V stands for vowel or diphthong. Any consonant can occur in the syllable onset, but only the consonants /p t k m n ŋ/ can occur in the coda. Nearly 5000 possible CV and CVC combinations can be formed. The language has about 3000 root words (about 60% of the number of possible CV and CVC combinations).

Orthography
Cuinaom is written in the Latin script. Its alphabet is entirely transparent, with a one to one correspondence between graphemes and phonemes. The tables below show the consonants and vowels of Cuinaom written in orthography, with IPA notation in square brackets.

Basic grammar
Coming soon.