Ükäntel

Ükäntel is a head-final nom-acc agglutinative language with front-back vowel harmony.

Allophony

 * /h/ appears as [x] following a back vowel, [ç] after a front vowel (and likewise /h:/ as [x:] or [ç:]) and only appears as [h] pre-vocalically.
 * If /h/ is preceded by a different fricative, /h/ will assimilate and lengthen the preceding fricative, i.e. /sh/ is realized as [s:]. This does not happen following an affricate.
 * Short /r/ is tapped while /r:/ is trilled.
 * Plain alveolar consonants will assimilate to their "palatal counterparts' regardless of sequence and result in a lengthened segment
 * /nj t͡sj sj rj/ become [ɲ t͡ʃ ʃ d͡ʒ]. /j/ is elided after existing /ɲ t͡ʃ ʃ d͡ʒ/.
 * /ʃd͡ʒ d͡ʒʃ/ are realized as [ʒd͡ʒ d͡ʒ:] respectively.

Allophony

 * /i y u/ are realized as [ɪ ʏ ʊ] before sonorant consonants and before /j w/.
 * Long vowels and diphthongs can appear across syllable boundaries.

Vowel Harmony
Vowels in Ükäntel pattern in front-back pairs with /i/ patterning neutrally. /y e ø æ/ alternate with /u ɤ o ɑ/ respectively, with archiphonemes being transcribed as /U E O A/. Vowels do not harmonize according to roundedness and thus all grammatical suffixes have two variants, unless the sole vowel is /i/ where one variant exists, or unless the suffix is an open syllable and contains the archiphoneme /O/ where four variants exist, the nature of which are described in the phonotactics section below.

Phonotactics
Ükäntel syllables minimally consist of only a vowel and maximally are CVC. The syllable can thus be transcribed as (C)V(C). Any consonant can appear as the onset or coda, and any single vowel can act as a syllable nucleus. /ø o/ do not appear word-finally, having become /e ɤ/ in that environment, and suffixes containing the archiphoneme /O/ and no coda consonant thus may possibly have four variants.

Stress
Stress is non-phonemic and falls on the first syllable of a word. Stressed vowels are pronounced significantly longer than unstressed vowels. Vowels are not reduced when unstressed.