Hoskh/Sandbox

This is what it would look like if Continental West Germanic and Northeast Caucasian had a baby. * /p͡f/ and /ɺ/ are restricted to expressive words, such as ideophones, interjections, and onomatopoeia. However, ideophones are part of regular speech, so these consonants are listed with the rest of the phonemes. h̪͆ appears in a couple of interjections and derived words, and is written »hsc«. (Should these be removed from the table and added to some marginal phoneme section?)

Word-final obstruents are devoiced, and this devoicing is lexicalized, although suffixes added to the words allow voicing. Nasals and pharyngeals cause nasalization and pharyngealization on preceding consonants. Stops from the uvula and back are affricatized before high vowels and word-finally, sometimes syllable-finally within a word. [ʙ̪] is a common realization of the sequence /ʀv/, especially syllable-initally (/v/ having developed from a historical /w/, hence the unusual clusters). [ɴ] comes from the assimilation of a nasal with a uvular stop. /ʀ/ may be realized [ʀ] [ʁ] [ʁ̞] or (word-finally) even [χ]. The glottal stop is not phonemic, but appears word-initally before vowels and between vowels that would otherwise be in hiatus, effectively making every syllable start with a consonant, and may have a phonemic value in separating sequences of two words, one starting with a vowel, from one word. Coronal consonants are apical and /ʃ/ is strongly labialized. Ejectives are weakly ejective, and may even be mistaken for tenuis consonants.

(Apparently there are various glottalized consonants in 2/3 of languages with large consonant inventories, so this language needs ejectives to be normal, although I'm pretty indifferent about them, just no implosives plz)

Syllabic Consonants:

The syllabic consonants have the same disction as the vowels, except that they are uniformly pronounced with harsh voice rather than stridency due to the difficulty of maintaining an epiglottal trill with consonants, particularly nasals (yay, epiglottal trilling through your nose). All the syllabic consonants (except the allophonic [ɴ]) can also appear as non-syllabic when following a vowel or approximant, but this is not phonemic. [ ɴ̩] etc. is a syllabic nasal before or after a uvular stop.

Syllabic fricatives are used in various onomatopoeia and interjections.

Possible:

Syllabic sonorants have length like vowels (only if it's common)

If /ʀ̩/ is realized as [ʁ̩̝] and occurs word-finally, it is devoiced to [χ̩] (yay syllabic [χ])

Vowels
All vowels come in pharyngealized and strident forms in addition to plain (considering adding some gaps).

Unconditioned vowel breaking:

[ɪː] -> [aɪ̯]

[ʏː] -> [aʏ̯] (or possibly [ɔʏ̯])

[ʊː] -> [aʊ̯]

[oː] -> [uo̯]

[ɛː] -> [εɪ̯]

[œː] -> [œʏ̯]

[ɔː] -> [ɔa̯]

[æː] -> [eə̯]

Umlaut:

i-umlaut:

[u] -> [y]

[ʊ] -> [ʏ]

[o] -> [ø]

[ɔ] -> [œ]

[a] -> [æ]

[aʊ̯] -> [aʏ̯] (or possibly [ɔʏ̯])

[uo̯] -> [yø̯]

[ɔa̯] -> [œa̯]

The rest are unchanged due to already being front.

u-umlaut:

[i] -> [y]

[ɪ] -> [ʏ]

[e] -> [ø]

[ɛ] -> [œ]

[æ] -> [œ]

[a] -> [ɔ] (if [ɔʏ̯] instead of [aʏ̯], else [a] -> [œ])

[εɪ̯] -> [œʏ̯]

[eə̯] -> [øɵ̯]

[aʊ̯] -> [ɔʊ̯]

[aɪ̯] -> [ɔʏ̯]

The rest are unchanged due to already being rounded.

a-umlaut:

[i] -> [e]

[y] -> [ø]

[ɪ] -> [ɛ]

[ʏ] -> [œ]

[ɛ] -> [a]

[e] -> [æ]

[o] -> [ɔ] (probably?)

[u] -> [o]

[ʊ] -> [ɔ]

[aɪ̯] -> [aɛ̯]

[aʏ̯] -> [aœ̯] or (probably) [ɔʏ̯] -> [ɔœ̯] (wow, such a weird horizontal diphthong...)

[uo̯] -> [oa̯], merges to [ɔa̯]

[εɪ̯] -> [aɛ̯]

[œʏ̯] -> [œː]

[eə̯] -> [æɐ̯]

Hopefully that's all...

Vowel reduction:  Only short lax vowels can appear in unstressed syllables, with secondary stress counting as stress. The vowels that can appear in unstressed syllables are / ɐ  œ   ɔ  ə ɪ ʏ ʊ/  < a ö o e i ü u>. (Possibly replaced [ œ ] as [ ɵ ]?)

Other:  Needs more umlaut, by which I mean, if anyone knows the i-umlaut, u-umlaut, or a-umlaut forms of the diphthongs, tell me, because I'm kind of stuck until I figure out what they are.