Solayan

Phonology Notes
vowels and some voiced consonants become nasalized when followed by either by a geminated nasal consonant or a nasal that is in a cluster and the nasal spreads and infects voiced sounds but it is blocked by long vowels, voiceless sounds, and voiceless geminates so for example the word [egampalo] would become [ẽŋãmpalo] while the word [ekampalo] would become [ekãmpalo].

φ, s, x, h are voiced intervocalically to β, z, ɣ, and ɦ.

Diphthongs are not permitted in the language and all archaic diphtongs have a glottal stop in between them so the Proto-Kinwali word [ao] became [aʔo] in Solayan but in Elamang it became [ɑ]

All consonant sounds can end a word except b, d, g, h, φ, ç, ʝ, and x.

All consonants except w,ʔ and j can be geminated.

Geminated hh is often realized as the voiceless pharyngeal fricative ħ in fast speech

Geminated voiced stops bb, dd, and gg are pronounced as implosive ɓ, ɗ and ɠ

geminated ŋŋ is often uvular ɴ

w is palatalized to ɥ when before i, iː or eː in some dialects w becomes ɥ in all environments

the cluster br is often pronounced as a bilabial trill в

Phonotactics
(C)V(C)C no consonant clusters can begin or end a word.

Grammar
reduplication is used more commonly in Solayan and languages closely related to it one example is reduplicating the first syllable of a word makes it plural so the word [ɲĩnno] means animal (or wild beast) [ɲĩɲĩnno] means animals or many animals but reduplicating the whole word puts emphasis on the word often meaning it is more or that it is big so [ɲĩnnoɲĩnno] means big or menacing animal(s) and [xato] means old and [xatoxato] means very old or extremely old.

Nouns
ugan means tree

harbū means boat

mus means dirt, manure, fertilizer