Jaguar 6 –  A Constructed Language

Jaguar 6 Phonology and Orthography

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Jaguar 6 has an unusual phonology.

Letters and Sounds

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in IPA) with the corresponding orthographic (romanization) symbols. Jaguar 6 is written using 33 letters:
a á å â æ ǽ b ç d e é f g h i í j m n ŋ o ó ø ǿ q r s u ú v x y zc k l p t w aren't used.

In the following tables, an asterisk * indicates that the letter is used for more than one sound.

Vowel Qualities

There are 8 oral vowels with 2 tones each and 5 nasal vowels.

Oral Vowels
  front central back
high
i*
í
- - -
u*
ú
high-mid - e˨ ø˨
e˦ ø˦
e* ø
é ǿ
- - -
o*
ó
-
mid - ə˨
ə˦
a*
á
-
low-mid - ɛ˨
ɛ˦
æ
ǽ
- - -
low - - ɑ˨
ɑ˦
å
â
-

Nasal Vowels
  front central back
high ĩ i* - - - ũ u*
mid - ə̃ o* -
low-mid - ɛ̃ e* - - -
low - - ɑ̃ a* -

Consonant Qualities

There are 21 consonant phones for 9 consonants.

Post-oral & Initial Consonants
  labial coronal dorsal guttural
stop voiced b b - - d d - - g g - -
voiceless p - - t - - k - ʔ  
fricative voiceless - f f - s s ʃ x ç ç - χ q -

Post-nasal Consonants
  labial coronal dorsal guttural
nasal voiced m m - - n n - - ŋ ŋ - ɴ h -
fricative voiced - v v - z z ʒ y ʝ j - -
rhotic voiced - - - ʀ r -

An epiglottal trill may occur for r.

Phonotactics

Words are formed using sequences of V(C) units plus an initial C. Each unit is either nasal or oral, with the consonant allophone depending on the quality of the vowel.

Prosody

Morphophonology

Initial [ʔə˨] is generally deleted.

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current date: 2017.Dec.02 Sat
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