K4 –  A Constructed Language

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K4 Phonology and Orthography

The Sounds

Vowel Letters and Phones

	Front						Back
High	i	i	-		-		-		u	u
Mid	-		e	E e	-		-		o	O o
Low	-		-		æ	&	a	A	-

Consonant Letters and Phones

		Labial				Coronal				Dorsal						Guttural
Stops	V'less	p	p	-		t	t	-		-		k	k	-		'	?
	Voiced	b	b			d	d					g	g			-
	Eject.	p'	p'			t'	t'					k'	k'
Nasals	Voiced	m	m	-		n	n	-		ñ	J	n	N	-		-
Affricates	V'less	-				-		c	tS)	-						-
	Voiced							j	dZ)
Fricatives	V'less	-		f	f	s	s	x	S	-				q	X	h	h
	Voiced			v	v	z	z	ý	Z					r	R	-
Approximants		-				l	l	-		y	j	w	w	-		-

Phonotactics

• Diphthongs include ai and au.
• Simple vowels can be short or long, except that æ and u are always long.
• W appears only in the onset clusters kw and gw.
• The other onset clusters are pj, bj, pl, bl, kl, gl, and tl.
• Medial and final consonant clusters are yet to be determined.
• Codas exclude b, d, g, j, ñ, y, and h.
• Syllables are basically (C(L))V(C) with extrasyllabic consonants.

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current date: 2012.Jun.27 Wed
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