Ampkohlaš –  A Constructed Language

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Ampkohlaš Phonology and Orthography

Note: The letters æ, œ, and y stand for the harmonizing vowels (low, mid, and high/zero, respectively); N stands for the homorganic nasal.

The Sounds

Vowels

	Unrounded						Rounded
	Front				Neutral		Back
High	i	i I	-		-		-
High	in	i~:	-		-		-
Mid	-		e	E &	-		o	o O
Mid	-		en	&~:	-		on	O~:
Low	-		-		a	a A	-
Low	-		-		an	A~:	-

Consonants

		Labial		Coronal				Dorsal						Guttural
Stops	Voiceless	p	p	t	t	-		-		k	k	-		h	?
	Ejective		p'		t'						k'	q	q'	-
	Voiced	b	b	d	d					g	g	-
Nasals	Voiced	m	m	n	n	-		-		ŋ	N	-		-
Affricates	Voiceless	-		c	ts)	č	tS)	-						-
	Voiced			z	dz)	ž	dZ)
Fricatives	Voiceless	f	P	s	s	š	S	(x)	C	x	x	(q)	X	-
Approximants		-		l	l	-		j	j	u	w	-		-

Phonotactics

The 2nd phonetic value for each oral vowel occurs next to q. Two consecutive oral vowels of the same basic quality are treated as a single long vowel. The nasal vowels occur only before fricatives and approximants.

The velar nasal ŋ is always preceded by a vowel. The ejective allophones occur before the plain voiceless stops and affricates and before nasal consonants. The palatal allophone «C¬ occurs next to i or e.

The onset clusters here are pl, bl, kl, and gl.

Ampkohlaš allows rather complicated consonant sequences and arbitrary vowel sequences.

Prosody

Except for the onset clusters and single consonants immediately preceding vowels, all segments are moraic.

Vowel Harmony

Ampkohlaš has front-back vowel harmony, where i and e are front while o and a are non-front. The low vowel a alternates with e and the high vowel i alternates with o. There are some non-harmonizing o's and i's which are realizations of the consonants u and j, respectively.

page started: 2010.Jul.03 Sat
current date: 2010.Jul.04 Sun
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