Qgp'nek

Classification and DialectsEdit
Current consensus believes gp'nek to be a language isolate. It is ergative-absolute in most of it's grammer but exibits nomitive-accusitive structure with regards to the gp'nekian copula.  P'cy p'q'pe c'apyc. Cx'ec p'kyp khh t'photxyt.

ConsonantsEdit

 * stuckthrough characters occur only in affricate form
 * 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
 * in some dialects the epiglottal and glottal fricatives have merged

VowelsEdit

 * vowels that occur as the first syllable of a word are somewhat unrounded
 * word-finally, vowels centralize to [ ʏ ɯ a* in some dialects, ɑ in main]
 * all vowels can be geminated; vowels can take on two phonemic lengths: short, and long

PhonotacticsEdit
Possible syllables in Qgp'nek for noun stems are C' and C'(C), for verbs C(V)  and  C(V)(C). For affixes, C' C'(C)  C(V)  C(V)(C)  and suffixes, V and  C. Syllable initials may be a single consonant, a vowel (rarely), a consonant cluster ending in a bilabial consonant, or an affricate. Medials can be a short vowel, a long vowel, a nasel, or an ejected air burst (or just nonexistent medial). Codas can be a single consonant, a vowel, or a geminate consonant.

Writing SystemEdit

 * geminant consonants are written as double letters as are long vowels