Mintinai

Classification and Dialects
Mintinai Malaka-an ([mʲintɕinɑj mɑlɑkɑːn], 'Language of Gods') or simply Mintinai is a language isolate spoken by Ottanaika ([otːɑnɑjkɑnɑ], 'wolf-people') in the Lost Heir Universe. The language has little dialectal differentiation and a simple phonology, phonotactic and grammar,

Alternations:
Consonants become palatalised preceding /j, i/ and labio-velarised preceding /w, u/.

The coda /Q/ assimilates homorganically to the following obstruent. It is [x] preceding resonants and [xː] preceding vowels.

The coda /N/ assimilates to the place of articulation of the following consonants. It cannot precede a (semi-)vowel.

The coda /L/ is [ɾ ~ ʑ ~ ɹʷ] preceding /r/, it is [l ~ lʲ ~ lʷ] preceding /l/. It is variably [r ~ ʑ ~ ɹʷ] or [l ~ lʲ ~ lʷ] elsewhere, though the latter is more common. It cannot precede a (semi-)vowel.

* [ɾɾ] is realised as [r]. Post-consonantal and utterance initial /r/ is variably realised as [ɾ ~ r].

Vowels
/i/ is phonetically [i], and [j] when realised as an offglide to a preceding vowel.

/u/ is phonetically more often [ʉ ~ y] than [u], though when realised as an offglide it is [w].

/e/ is phonetically mid-front [e̞ ~ ɛ̝], it can variably be realised as [ø̞ ~ œ̝] preceding /u/ and /o/.

/o/ is phonetically mid-back [o̞ ~ ɔ̝].

/a/ is phonetically open-back [ɑ], though some speakers prefer open-central [ɑ̈] or even open-front [a].

[ViC ~ VuC] and [VjC ~ VwC] are allophonic, the latter being far more prevalent. [ViV ~ VuV] and [VjʔV ~ VwʔV] are allophonic, the latter being far more prevalent. [VV] and [Vː] are allophonic, the latter being far more prevalent.

Phonotactics
The syllablestructure is extremely simple with.

(C)(J)V(Q)

Whereby C = Consonant, J = semivowel, Q = Coda.

Writing System
Mintinai uses two writing systems an ideographical for words and an additional alpha-syllabary for marking of grammatical function and definiteness.

The following correspondence between letters and sounds is for the romanisation of the languages sounds. The coda /Q/ is written with the same glyph as the following obstruent or as  preceding vowels. /N/ is written as  and /L/ as  preceding /r/ and as  everywhere else.

Nouns
Nouns are ordered in three classes---order, chaos, void---each of which takes different verbs. Nouns are indeclinable and are marked grammatically by a post-positioned particles. If you want to show you are speaking about one man, and not an indeterminate amount of men, you would preposition the word for one (i) to man (mox) to get i mox 'a/one man'.