Ituyagul/phonology

Ituyagul the largest phoneme inventory of all constructed languages without clicks, having 163 consonants, 157 vowels, and 90 tone sandhi. It has consonants in eleven places articulation, 73 distinct plosives, 90 affricates, and 86 fricatives.

Vowels
Like most Germanic languages, Ituyagul has a large vowel inventory. 36 phonemic monophtongs exist in Ituyagul, all of them being in long and short pairs. There are 5 vowel heights and 4 articulations.

All diphtongs must contain i, y, ɯ, u, or a, resulting in 85 possible diphtongs.

Tone
Like most Niger-Congo languages, tone plays an important role in inflectional morphology. Ituyagul uses tone to inflect nouns and verbs for voice and person.

In the orthography, Chao tone letters are used due to the large number of tone sandhi (90).

Allophones
The significant allophonic distinctions for Ituyagul phonemes are as follows:
 * /r/  In normal speech, this phoneme is pronounced as a voiced apico-alveolar trill [r]. However, when it follows the consonants the voiced alveolar fricatives [z, ɮ] it is slightly raised to [r̝], as in Czech, Kashubian, Kobon, and and Slovakian.
 * /ɲ̊, ɲ, ɲʱ, tɕ, tɕʰ, tɕʼ, dʑ, dʑʱ, ɕ, ɕʰ, ʑ, ʑʱ/  All of those consonants listed are alveolo-palatal. Before or after front vowels, they are true palatal /ɲ̊, ɲ, ɲʱ, cç, cçʰ, cçʼ, ɟʝ, ɟʝʱ, ç, çʰ, ʝ, ʝʱ/.
 * /ɽ/  Normally a retroflex flap, geminated /ɽ/ is a retroflex trill [ɽr], only occuring in Toda and Wintu.
 * /ħ, h/  Before or after dental and alveolar consonants, they are bidental /h̪͆ˤ, h̪͆/.

Phonotactics
Ituyagul has no flexible syllable structure, due to the varying phonotactics of each grammatical component.