User:Eçeþesi/Sandbox/5

This is very much so a work in progress, so bear with me... >.>

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. In NL clusters, the liquid must be a rhotic. 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.

Example text

 * Braθis myĭłoẋtεz.


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