Jaguar 3 –  A Constructed Language

Jaguar 3 Phonology and Orthography

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Letters and Sounds

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in IPA) with the corresponding orthographic (romanization) symbols. The 20 letters used are:
a á e é g i í k m n o ó p r s t u ú x ' — b c d f h j l q v w y z aren't used.

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

Vowel Qualities

There are 4 short vowels, 4 nasal vowels, 5 long vowels, and 2 diphthongs. The diphthongs are [ai] ai and [ao] ao.

Oral Vowel Qualities

	Front								Central		Back
High	i i:	i ii	-						-		-						u:	uu
High-mid	-		e:	ee	-				-		-				o o:	o oo	-
Low-mid	-				ɛ	e	-		-		-
Low	-						a:	aa	-		ɑ	a	-

Nasal Vowel Qualities

	Front								Central		Back
High	ĩ:	in	-						-		-
High-mid	-								-		-				õ:	on	-
Low-mid	-				ɛ̃:	en	-		-		-
Low	-								-		ɑ̃:	an	-

Long vowels (excluding nasals) and diphthongs distinguish 3 tones: rising, with an acute on the 2nd letter (e.g. aá), falling, with an acute on the 1st letter (e.g. áa), and steady, which is unaccented (e.g. aa).

Consonant Qualities

There are 10 onset consonant phonemes using 10 phones.

Onset Consonant Qualities

		Labial				Coronal						Dorsal								Guttural
Nasal	voiced	m	m	-		-		n	n	-		-		ŋ	g	-				-
Stop	voiceless	p	p	-		-		t	t	-		-		k	k	-				ʔ	'
Fricative	voiceless	-				-		s	s	-		ç	x	-						-
Rhotic	voiced	-				-						-								ʢ	r

There are 4 coda consonant phonemes using 4 phones.

Coda Consonant Qualities

		Labial				Coronal						Dorsal								Guttural
Stop	voiceless	-				-						-								ʔ	'
Fricative	voiceless	-				-		s	s	-		ç	x	-						-
Rhotic	voiced	-				-						-								ʢ	r

Phonotactics

With -VV representing a diphthong or long vowel, the following rhyme types appear:

light: -V
heavy: -VC, -VV

Prosody

Morphophonology

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