Hoskh/Sandbox

This is what it would look like if Continental West Germanic and Northeast Caucasian had a baby. * /p͡f/ and /ɺ/ are restricted to expressive words, such as ideophones, interjections, and onomatopoeia. However, ideophones are part of regular speech, so these consonants are listed with the rest of the phonemes.

Word-final obstruents are devoiced, and this devoicing is lexicalized, although suffixes added to the words allow voicing. Nasals and pharyngeals cause nasalization and pharyngealization on preceding consonants. Stops from the uvula and back are affricatized before high vowels and word-finally, sometimes syllable-finally within a word. [ʙ̪] is a common realization of the sequence /ʀv/, especially syllable-initally (/v/ having developed from a historical /w/, hence the unusual clusters). [ɴ] comes from the assimilation of a nasal with a uvular stop. /ʀ/ may be realized [ʀ] [ʁ] [ʁ̞] or (word-finally) even [χ]. The glottal stop is not phonemic, but appears word-initally before vowels and between vowels that would otherwise be in hiatus, effectively making every syllable start with a consonant, and may have a phonemic value in separating sequences of two words, one starting with a vowel, from one word. Coronal consonants are apical and /ʃ/ is strongly labialized. Ejectives are weakly ejective, and may even be mistaken for tenuis consonants.

(Apparently there are various glottalized consonants in 2/3 of languages with large consonant inventories, so this language needs ejectives to be normal, although I'm pretty indifferent about them, just no implosives plz)

Syllabic Consonants:

The syllabic consonants have the same disction as the vowels, except that they are uniformly pronounced with harsh voice rather than stridency due to the difficulty of maintaining an epiglottal trill with consonants, particularly nasals (yay, epiglottal trilling through your nose). All the syllabic consonants (except the allophonic [ɴ]) can also appear as non-syllabic when following a vowel or approximant, but this is not phonemic. [ ɴ̩] etc. is a syllabic nasal after a uvular stop.

Syllabic fricatives are used in various onomatopoeia and interjections.

Possible:

Syllabic sonorants have length like vowels (only if it's common)

If /ʀ̩/ is realized as [ʁ̩̝] and occurs word-finally, it is devoiced to [̩χ̩] (yay syllabic [χ])

If there are going to be creaky voiced vowels and sonorants, and pharyngealized vowels and sonorants, there probably need to be creaky voiced pharyngealized vowels and sonorants, since those are not mutually exclusive, but that seems like too much...

Other:

Pharyngealization and laryngealization/creaky voice: http://latlcui.unige.ch/phonetique/moap/lesson.php?lesson=32

These are better examples of pharyngealized vowels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44KA_2iTY_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9KkRcnvVg