Kanduadas

Phonology

 * The standard language is based on the dialect of Makiór [mäˈtʲ ɤ̞ɾ].

Consonants

 * [ʔ] appears (but isn't written) before a vowel at the beginning of a word. Unvoiced plosives codas tend to be changed to this in some dialects. And in most dialects including Makiór the glottal stop can appear after a vowel that is ending a word. But in all other positions it has disappeared.
 * [ɹ] is the word-initial allophone of /ɾ/ in most dialects.
 * [n] is the colloquial intervocalic allophone of /ŋ/. Having a velar nasal while not having an alveolar nasal is virtually unheard of cross-linguistically.
 * [tʲ~kʲ] is an allophone of /k/ before /i/ or /i/ and a vowel.
 * [j] is an allophone of /r/ before /i/ or /i/ and a vowel.
 * [ɫ] is an allophone of /l/ at the end of syllables.
 * Alveolar and post-alveolar fricatives cannot co-exist in a word. ex. sulvx [ˈsulɵ̞̃s]
 * [ts] is an allophone of /tʃ/ when in a word dominated by the alveolar fricative.

Vowels

 * The sounds are rounded or unrounded according to the rules of roundness harmony. The first vowel (that isn't V) dictates the roundness of a word.
 * [ɪ] is the colloquial allophone of /i/ when unstressed and unrounded.
 * [ə̃] is written V.
 * [ǝ] and [ɵ̞] are the unstressed, word-final allophones of /a/, /e/, and /o/.
 * /e/ and /o/ are lowered to mid when in a closed syllable (that is, the syllable ends in a consonant).
 * the diphthongs are Ai, Au, Ei, Eu, Oi, and Vu.

Stress
Stress is placed on the antepenultimate syllable unless otherwise indicated by an acute accent in the romanizations.

Alphabet
The Latin Kanduadas alphabet, Sbokanduaxel, is used more often than the original orthography, Bakanduaxel.

Pronouns


Deixis
There are no indefinite or definite articles. Instead, Kanduadas uses demonstratives, which appear as proclitics.

The Deitic positions are as follows:

Proximal: Anything that is close to the speaker.

Mesioproximal: Anything close to the listener.

Mesiodistal: Anything away from the speaker and the listener but still close by.

Distal: Anything away from the speaker and the listener and far away.