Cuinaom

Setting
Choinaom (IPA: /xoi̯nao̯m/) is spoken by a group of about 200 elves who live in the forests of Siberia.

Phonology
Choinaom has a sound inventory consisting of eleven consonants and five vowels. Choinaom also has eleven diphthongs. The eleven consonants include two plosives (/t/ and /k/), four fricatives (/s/, /ɬ/, /x/ and /h/), three nasals (/m/, /n/ and /ŋ/), and two liquids (/l/ and /ɾ/). Choinaom is unusual in that it has only one labial consonant, /m/. Choinaom has a five-vowel system consisting of the vowels /i e ə a o/, in which mid vowels are distinguished at three degrees of backness (front, central and back). Vowel length is not contrastive. There is very little allophony in either the consonant or vowel system. The plosive consonants are usually unaspirated but may have weak aspiration word-initially. /h/ may become voiced intervocalically.

Consonants
The eleven consonants of Choinaom in the standard orthography are listed below, with IPA notation in brackets:

Vowels
The five vowels of Choinaom in the standard orthography are listed below, with IPA notation in brackets:

Diphthongs
Choinaom has the following eleven diphthongs: /ei̯ e̯a eo̯ əi̯ ai̯ ae̯ ao̯ oi̯ o̯e o̯ə o̯a/

Phonotactics
Syllable structure is CV(C). Any consonant can occur in the syllable onset but only the consonants /m n ŋ l ɾ/ can occur in the syllable coda, and only /m n ŋ l/ can occur in word-final codas. About 29% of syllables contain a coda. The following consonant clusters can occur in root words: /ms mx mh mɬ ml mɾ nt ns nh nɬ nl ŋk ŋs ŋh ŋl ŋɾ lt lk ls lx lm ɾt ɾk ɾs ɾx ɾh ɾɬ ɾm ɾn ɾŋ ɾl/. Compound words can contain several other consonant clusters when a root ending in a coda precedes another root.