Omves

Consonants
Non-velar fricatives are voiced intervocalically, e.g. the 'v' in 'Omves'. [+fricative][-velar] > [+voice] / V_V.

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 (' ' ').

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 - [ɺaʔøp]

Verbs
Verbs are usually constructed by adding prefixes to other verbs. For example, on is the speech prefix 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 prefix 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


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

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