Felönrätli

General information
Felönrätli is the official language of Felönrä Empire. Being mothertongue to the Felönra nation, it has been developing for more than 2 thousand years already. Although felönra make only 20% of the Empire's population, their language is widely used as lingua-franca within it's borders and beyond.

Alphabet
In this Wiki Felönrätli uses Latin alphabet with some digraphs and letters with diacritics added.

Digraphs:

"si" for [ʃ]

"zi" for [ʒ]

"ch" for [χ]

"wr" for [ɹ]

"ng" for [ŋ]

"th" for [θ]

"dh" for [ð]

Diacritics:

ä for [æ]

ö for [ø]

ü for [y]

õ for [ɨ]

Orthography
1. Long sounds are represented by double letters. To represent a long digraph sound, only the last letter of digraph becomes double.

2. [i] is represented by 'y' after 'z' and 's'.

3. Letter 'i' represents the sound [j] before vowels and in the and of a syllable.

4. Letter 's' represents the sound [s] after the consonants and [ɬ] in other positions.

The following combinations are pronounced differently due to the difficulty of the original pronunciation. They may occur between morphemes.

stch - si sb - sm tht - thh sth - ch

'h' is not pronounced after fricatives.

Phonotactics
Possible syllables:

V, CV, CVA, VC, CVC CCVC, CCV, CCVCC, CAV*


 * Where A is an approximant.