American Turkic

American Turkic (natively known as Qirqiz til, IPA: [ˈq'i˞q'iz t'il], literally "Kyrgyz tongue"), is a Turkic language spoken in Western North America in an alternate history timeline.

Classification and Dialects
American Turkic is definately a Turkic language. It is the least conservative of the bunch, which made most linguists in this alternate timeline deny this connection until the 1900s, although it shares thousands cognates with the Turkic languages spoken thousands of miles away (see the Swadesh list at the very end). There are three major dialects of American Turkic: one in North America, one in Southern Africa, and one in Polynesia.

Allophony

 * [k] and [x] tend to become palatal following front vowels or [j]. This allophony has since become phonemic after [j] was lost after these palatal consonants (but the loss only happened in North America).
 * [v] becomes [w] when it occurs before a stressed vowel.
 * Non-ejective [t] tends to become [ɾ] between vowels.
 * Plosives (but not ejectives) tend to become aspirated in the onset of a stressed syllable (but not when they occur after sibilants).
 * Nasals become [ɴ] before uvular plosives

Phonotactics
The syllable structure of American Turkic is (C)C(C)V(C).

American Turkic allows only voicless sibilant + plosive + liquid or plosive + liquid as clusters in onset.

American Turkic prohibits consonant clusters in coda

American Turkic prohibits both diphthongs and geminants

Writing System
American Turkic uses a variant of the Latin alphabet as its writing system. It has a couple of digraphs. The ogonek is used to denote nasal vowels.

Word Order
The word order in American Turkic is VOS, or verb-object-subject.