Qgp'nek

Classification and DialectsEdit
Current consensus believes Qgp'nek to be a language isolate. It is ergative-absolute in most of it's grammer but exibits nomitive-accusitive structure on with regards to the Qgp'nekian copula.

ConsonantsEdit

 * fricatives only occur as ejectives in affricate pairs, in the case of the dental, an aspirated form is also absent exept when in affricate form
 * all consonants voiceless word-initially, are near-voiced/voiced if NOT unaspirated or ejective mid-word
 * velar consonants are slightly labialised by most speakers before rounded vowels
 * affricates are lightly germinated word-finally
 * aspirated plosives are lightly germinated word-finally,
 * all consonants except the nasel can be geminated

VowelsEdit

 * the central vowels vary in roundedness to agree with the preceding vowel; when they occur in the first syllable of a word, they are unrounded
 * back vowels become rounded after labial consonants
 * word-finally, high vowels centralize to [ɪ ʏ ɯ̽ ʊ]
 * all vowels can be geminated; vowels can take on three phonemic lengths: short, long and extra-long

DiphthongsEdit
The possible dipthongs in Ødiláïffe are /ai̯/, /aɯ̯/, /ay̯/, and /au̯/, written «aï, aẅ, aÿ, aü» respectively. Diphthongs can be geminated. Ungeminated diphthongs are long, and geminated diphthongs are extra-long. In geminated diphthongs, the first component is the one that becomes lengthened.

PhonotacticsEdit
Possible syllables in Ødiláïffe are (C)(C)V(V)(V)(C)(C)(C). Syllable initials may be a single consonant, a geminant, or a consonant cluster. Medials can be a short vowel, a long vowel, and extra-long vowel, or a diphthong or extra-long diphthong. Codas can be a single consonant, a geminate consonant, a consonant cluster (which may include a geminate sonorant or fricative as its first component), but they may not be approximants or consonant clusters with geminate second components.

Writing SystemEdit

 * geminant consonants are written as double letters; long vowels are written with an acute, and extra-long vowels are written with a double acute