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Phonology
Kti has a moderately simple phonological system, with a small amount of contrasting consonants and several types of vowels.

Vowels
Kti has six vowel qualities spread relatively evenly across the vowel space: it has two front, two central and two back vowel qualities. It does not contrast rounded and unrounded vowels, though most of its vowels have an innate roundedness feature.

Ktarh monophthongs distinguish three degrees of length; they can either be short, long or overlong. Short vowels are unmarked, long vowels take a macron (such as <ǣ>) and overlong vowels take a circumflex (such as <æ̂>). Some overlong vowels may also end up being written as, for example, ; such phonetically overlong vowels are in fact underlying sequences of a long and short vowel that have undergone coalescence.

Kti has five diphthongs that metrically count as a single long vowel. There are also three triphthongs that metrically count as an overlong vowel.

Consonants
Kti has a fairly simplistic consonant system, with twelve native consonant phonemes and four marginal phonemes often considered non-native.

The two primary consonant allophonical processes are the transformations of velars in specific conditions:
 * k g x --> kʲ gʲ xʲ / _{e ē ê i ī î}
 * k g x --> ḵ ḡ h / #_V

Syllabification and Phonotactics
Kti has a moderately complex syllable structure, with a fairly consistent syllable shape. Most Ktarh syllables come in the form of (CC)V(C), with a possible initial cluster but only a simple coda. A particularity of the Ktarh system is that it requires that every vowel is always bordered by at least one consonant. There are four root-initial clusters that violate the CC-initial restriction: /ʂʔn ʐʔn šʔmn ʐʔmn/ can begin roots despite being more than two consonants long. These are derived from proto-Ktarh /*štn *ždn *špn *žbn/ that were part of a wider system of tri-consonantal intials that has long since collapsed. The longest sequence of consonants allowed is technically three: roots with one of the four clusters must take epenthetic vowels so that they may take prefixes or be compounded with words that end in consonants.