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Mvöihłòxt, [ ṽ ɤ̃ĩ̯ ʟ̊ ɔχ t̠], anglicized Vailoqt

Consonants

 * interdental plosives and nasals may be pronounced linguolabially by some speakers
 * /x/ becomes backed to /χ/ when adjacent to back vowels
 * voiceless plosives become deaspirated when not followed by a vowel

Vowels
Mvöihłòxt utilizes numerous diphthongs. Following is a chart of possible diphthongs, with initial components on the first column and secondary components on the first row; headers are in IPA and cells are in orthography.
 * all vowels may become allophonically nasal
 * /a/ become [æ̃] when nasal
 * /i/ and /ʉ/ become backed to [ɨ] and [u] when adjacent to a velar or uvular consonant

Alphabet

 * <Ḣ ḣ> may be used to distinguish the consonant /h/ from a component of a digraph if clarification is necessary.

Phonotactics
Syllables in Mvöihłòxt are of the form (C)(C)C(Y)V(C)(C), where C is a consonant, Y is a glide, and V is a vowel or diphthong. /!/ may not occur in the coda. Initial consonant clusters can be in the form of OO, NO, SO, OL, OS, OOL, OOS, SOL, SN, NL, or SNL, where O is an obstruent, N is a nasal, L is a liquid, and S is a sibilant. Codal clusters may be in the form OO, SO, OS, LO, LS, NS, or NO. All consonants in a cluster must be either voiced or unvoiced. When an NO cluster begins a word, it becomes reduced to either a mere nasal stop if the obstruent is a plosive, or a nasalized fricative if the obstruent was a fricative. If a vowel or diphthong is preceded by a nasal consonant or /!/, then it becomes nasalized.

Nouns
Nouns decline for five cases: ergative (also called active or agentive), absolutive (also called passive or patientive), dative, genitive, and prepositional; and three numbers: singular, dual, and plural.

Verbs
Verbs conjugate for four tenses: present, past, future, and general; for two aspects: perfective and imperfective; four moods: indicative, imperative, conditional, and hypothetical; and agree with their subject's and object's person, gender, and number.

Pronouns
Mvöihłòxt pronouns come in four persons: first, second, third, and fourth; three numbers: singular, dual, and plural; and 5 cases: active, passive, dative, genitive, and prepositional. Pronouns in the first and second persons do not have active or passive cases, and pronouns in the first person as well as dual and plural pronouns do not distinguish gender. Dual and plural first person pronouns do not distinguish clusivity, but there is a three-tiered T-V distinction in the second person singular.

Example text

 * Braθis myĭłoẋtεz.


 * "I [male] speak Vailoqt." IPA: ['bʁa.ɬ̟is ṽɤ̃ȷ̃'ʟɔχt̠.ɛʒ]