User:Quark8/Stuff

My stuff. Possible languages I might elaborate on, fictions, and the other stuff. Now, onto the stuff.

Phonology
A contrast between voiced, voiceless, and voiceless aspirated stops. There were originally voiced aspirated stops, but they merged with plain voiced stops initially, and became a sequence of voiced stop + separate h (i.e. ghibhym [gʰɪbʰʏm] "air" becomes gibhym [gibhy:m] "air".)(Note: I am not adding stress and showing syllables and suprasegmentals.)).

There are six places of articulation, and stops occupy every place of articulation, each with voiced/voiceless pairs and the aspirated stops: bilabial, dental, alveolar, retroflex, palatal, and velar. The same places of articulation for nasals, but all are voiced and none are aspirated. The stops and nasals are the only retroflex consonants. There is an alveolar flap, which is articulated after consonants and word-finally, while the alveolar trill is in all other positions. Voiceless stops cannot be geminated.

The Phones/Phonemes (not sure which one to use):

Stops: /p b pʰ t̪ d̪ t̪ʰ t d tʰ ʈ ɖ ʈʰ c ɟ cʰ k g kʰ/ 

Fricatives: /ɸ β v s z ç/ Nasals: /m n̪ n ɳ ɲ ŋ/  Flap/Trill: /ɾ or r/  Approximant: /ɻ j w/ <ḻ j w> Lateral Approximant: /l ɭ/  Not a lot of allophony. Voiceless stops are aspirated word-initially, and /w/ is [v] before vowels. Vowels are all monophthongs, and vowel length is phonemic, with the vowel qualities being different when long. Vowels: /ɑ ɒ: e ø: i y: ɔ o: u u:/ 

Wordlist (before I forget):
gibhym [gibhy:m] "air"

ttychyr [t̪ʰy:çy:ɾ] "fire (active)"

wúdir [vu:diɾ] "fire (inanimate and passive)"

iṇgwinos [iɳgvinɔs] "water"

öyr [ø:y:ɾ] "earth"