Kelantepan

General and Cultural Information
Kelantepan (natively lüdar ca Kälamtäpa or Kälamdar) is a language spoken in the cold north of Patrona by the Kälamtäpa, a name which means "Fire-people". The Kelantepans, despite (or perhaps due to) their cold environment, worship fire, the sun, and volcanoes.

Consonants

 * 1) The sequences /kj/ and /gj/ are more common than the bare /k/ and /g/.
 * 2) /r/ is a raised retroflex approximant, sounding approximantly halfway between [ɻ] and [ʐ]. It is devoiced before a voiceless consonant.

Vowels
This strange vowel system actually originated as a very simple five-vowel system, having undergone a massive counter-clockwise shift.

Phonotactics
(C)V(/m/, /r/);

min: /u/; max: /tʃær/
 * Syllable-final /m/ assimilates to the place of articulation of any following consonant in all but the most careful speech.
 * /w/ doesn't occur before /u/ or /y/.
 * /j/ doesn't occur before /e/ or /y/ except as a part of /kj/ and /gj/.
 * Consecutive vowels are in separate syllables.
 * No more than three consecutive vowels are permitted.

Stress
Primary stress is always on the second syllable of a word, with secondary stress on every other syllable after that. ex. Kälamtäpa [kjæˈlʌntæˌpʌ]

Writing System

 * Adding an apostrophe on  and  negates the inherent /j/. ex. k’amlu /kʌmlu/