The May14 Constructed Language

May14 Phonology and Orthography

The orthographic letters used are a â b c d e ê f g h i î j k l m n o ô p q r s t u û v x y z '; the letter w isn't used.

The 1st table show the consonant phones that can appear while the 2nd table shows the vowel phones; the corresponding orthography is also given. Letters marked with an asterisk * appear in more than one place in the tables.

Consonants

		Labial				Coronal						Dorsal						Guttural
Stops	V'less	p	p	-		-		t	t	-		-		k	k	-		'	ʔ
	Voiced	b	b	-		-		d	d	-		-		g	g	-		-
Nasals	Voiced	m	m	-		-		n*	n	-		-		n*	ŋ	-		-
Affricates	V'less	-				-				c	t͡ʃ	-						-
	Voiced	-				-				j	d͡ʒ	-						-
Fricatives	V'less	-		f	f	z	θ	s	s	x	ʃ	-				q	χ	h	h
	Voiced	-		v	v	-				y	ʒ	-						-
Trills	Voiced	-				-		r	r	-		-						-
Approximants		-				-		l	l	-		-						-

Short and Long Vowels

	Front								Central		Back
High	i î	i i:	-						-		-				u û	u u:
High-Mid	-		ê	e:	-				-		-		ô	o:	-
Low-Mid	-				e	ɛ	-		-		o	ɔ	-
Low	-						a â	a a:	-		-

The diphthongs are ai [ai], au [au], oi [ɔi], and eu [ɛu].

The following table shows how each vowel phoneme combines with a following glide, both before a vowel and otherwise.

Vowel-Glide Combinations

Vowel	+ Other			+ Vowel
	+ y	+ h	+ v	+ y	+ h	+ v
i	i:	e:	u:	i.	ɛ.h	u.
ɛ	e:	a:	ɛu	ɛ.ʒ	a.h	ɛ.v
a	ai	a:	au	a.ʒ	a.h	a.v
ɔ	ɔi	o:	o:	ɔ.ʒ	ɔ.h	ɔ.v
(ɛ)	i	a	u	i.	.h	u.

Syllables are (C)V(C), (C)V:(C), (C)VV(C), and (C)VR(C), where R is a resonant (r, l, or homorganic nasal). The coda can only be a voiceless obstruent. Any consonant may appear as an onset.

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current date: 2014.May.18 Sun
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