Kitarian

General information
The Kitarian language (Kitarian: kitjäärii njeef, IPA: [kʲicɑːʁiː ɲɛːf]) is a synthetic agglutinative/fusional language spoken in Siberia, north of Omsk and Novosibirsk.

Vowels
Kitarian has both long and short vowels.

Short
There are fourteen short vowels:
 * I i : [i] close front unrounded vowel
 * Ü ü : [y] close front rounded vowel
 * U u : [u] close back rounded vowel
 * Î î : [ɪ] near-close near-front unrounded vowel
 * Ů ů : [ʏ] near-close near-front rounded vowel
 * Û û : [ʊ] near-close near-back rounded vowel
 * É é : [e] close-mid front unrounded vowel
 * Ö ö : [ø] close-mid front rounded vowel
 * Ë ë : [ɤ] close-mid back unrounded central vowel
 * O o : [o] close-mid back rounded central vowel
 * E e : [ɛ] open-mid front unrounded vowel
 * A a : [a] open front unrounded vowel
 * Ä ä : [ɑ] open back unrounded vowel

Long
Near-close vowels do not occur as long vowels and so Kitarian has ten long vowels which are represented by double-letters:
 * II ii : [iː] long close front unrounded vowel
 * ÜÜ üü : [yː] long close front rounded vowel
 * Uu uu : [uː] long close back rounded vowel
 * ÉÉ éé : [eː] long close-mid front unrounded vowel
 * ÖÖ öö : [øː] long close-mid front rounded vowel
 * ËË ëë : [ɤː] long close-mid back unrounded central vowel
 * OO oo : [oː] long close-mid back rounded central vowel
 * EE ee : [ɛː] long open-mid front unrounded vowel
 * AA aa : [aː] long open front unrounded vowel
 * ÄÄ ää : [ɑː] long open back unrounded vowel