Postby Thon » 2015-02-12, 11:09
I just came up with this phonology, for a new conlang:
Vowels:
Close - i y u
Mid - e ø o
Open - a
Consonants:
Plosives: p b t d rt rd k g
Fricatives: f v th dh s z ś ź rs rz h
Affricates: c ç ć ḉ rc rç
Nasals: m n ń rn
Approximants: r j w l
IPA realizations:
a b c ć ç ḉ d dh e f g h i j k l m n ń o ø p qu r rc rç rd rn rs rt rz s ś t th u v w x x́ y z ź
/a b ts tɕ dz dʑ d ð e f g h i j k ɰ~ɰᵝ m n ɲ o ø p kw ɹ ʈʂ ɖʐ ɖ ɳ ʂ ʈ ʐ s ɕ t θ u v w ks kɕ y z ʑ/
There is a length distinction in vowels, marked by doubling.
Retroflex consonants arise from clusters of R and alveolar consonants (hence the spelling). Grammatically they are treated like clusters.
Stress is on the last heavy syllable (i.e. the last syllable containing a long vowel or a nonempty coda or both), unless marked with an acute accent. Syllabification follows the sonority hierarchy:
vowel>approximant>nasal>plosive=fricative=affricate
Unstressed E and O are /ə/ and /ɵ/ respectively.
I plan to include the following in the morphosyntax:
Strict SVO, head-initial syntax;
Nouns inflecting for definiteness, case (nominative, accusative, genitive, lative, locative, ablative, instrumental, abessive, vocative), and number (singular, dual and plural)