Aruk

General information
Aruk (Aruk nan otlo [ɑɺɯk nɑn otɬo]) is a language isolate that employs a multitude of cases and verb forms, but maintains complete regularity. It is largely agglutinative and sentences are head-final.

Phonology
Aruk has a fairly small phonemic inventory. Allophones are in parentheses.

Consonants

 * /n/ becomes palatalized to [ɲ], and becomes velarized [ŋ] before velar consonants and fricatives.
 * /s/ is becomes palatalized to [ɕ].
 * /ts/ is becomes palatalized to [tɕ].
 * /h/ becomes labio-palatalized to [ɸᶣ].
 * /h/ becomes palatalized to [ç].
 * /h/ becomes velarized to [x].

Vowels

 * /i/ palatalizes preceding consonants.
 * /y/ labio-palatalizes preceding consonants.
 * /ɯ/ velarizes preciding consonants.