Omves

Consonants
Non-velar fricatives are voiced intervocalically or after a nasal, e.g. the /v/ in 'Omves'.

Nasals commonly assimilate in both voicing and place to a follow plosive or fricative.

Consonants are romanized as their IPA symbols, except for  ʃ ('sh', when voiced 'zh'),  ç ('c', when voiced 'j'),  ɾ ('r'),  ɺ ('lr'), j ('y') and  ʔ (' ' ').

/ ɺ/ is a rare consonant and only found in certain dialects while most speakers pronounce as / ɾ /.

Vowels
A front vowel will become rounded before a bilabial consonant, unless it is preceded by an velar consonant. [+front] > [+rounded] / _{mpb} ! {kg}_. Close-mid vowels become near-close in unstressed syllables. e [-stressed] > ɪ and o [-stressed] > ʊ.

These changes are not shown in the romanization.

There is vowel harmony shown in the verb morphology. The first vowel in the root or derived word is used to determine whether the front or back agglugnating prefixes are used.

Phonotactics
(C)V(C) structure. Words have a tendency to start with a vowel that is followed by two consonants. For example, 'omv' in 'Omves'.

Stress
Stress lands on the first syllable of the main morpheme.

Examples
Omves - [oɱvɪs]

Lra'ep - [ɺaʔʏp]

Verbs
Verbs are usually constructed by adding suffixes to other words. For example, on means speech and su means to do, so to speak/say is onsu. Verbs conjugate to show mood/evidentiality and voice, while agreeing in number with the main argument. Each suffix has two forms which are chosen depending on the last vowel in the root. Here is a fully conjugated verb: onsulkoro speech.do.IND.PAS.PLU

Because verbs do not conjugate to show tense, the third person pronouns are instead used to show the past tense. The pronoun is put after the main argument with which it agrees in number. This is usually only done for the past, but in special cases it may be done for the non-past as well.

Word Order
SOV

Nouns
To express an indefinite noun then one may place the particle yo or u before it. yo is used with animate nouns, and u with inanimate.

Temp: -a = nominative, -ro = accusative, -i/j = plural

Copula
The copula i is used just like a normal verb. It is, however, irregular.

Examples Sentences
The boy spoke. teja so onsul. boy.NOM 3PS.NOM.PST speech.do.IND