Tomeko

Consonants
There are a total of 30 consonant sounds in Tomeko. 3 are nasals, 9 are stop consonants, 11 are fricatives, 3 are affricates, and finally, there are 3 approximates.

Vowels
There are ten vowel sounds in Tomeko. Half are rounded, half are not. Also, each vowel can have two pitches: high and low. Generally, stressed syllables will have the high tone in their first (or main) vowel, while unstressed syllables' main vowels will have the low tone.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure in Tomeko is as follows:

(C)(q, h)V(V)(V)(C)(b, p, t, d, k, g),

where C is a consonant, V is a vowel, and lowercase letters refer to those sounds in Tomeko. In addition, as mentioned above, the main vowel of a syllable is the first, required vowel, while the side vowels of a syllable are the other two, optional vowels.

Orthography
* left sound is produced unless it comes after another consonant

** right sound is produced when the first vowel in the syllable is a back vowel, left sound is produced otherwise

*** left symbol corresponds to the low tone; right symbol corresponds to the high tone