Phonology

1. Inventory
   1. Consonants
   2. Vowels
2. Allophones
3. Phonotactics
4. Romanisation

Inventory

Consonants

Note that these are not just features of fast speech, nor allophones, but phonemic contrasts!

Vowels

Allophones

These are not only features of fast speech; they are standard/common pronunciations.

1. Velar and uvular fricatives become labialised when following rounded vowels.
   • This can cause ambiguity on whether a /x/ sound is underlyingly /x/ or /xʷ/.
   • Example: muqhne is pronounced as [muχʷ.nə], with the underlying /χ/ surfaced as [χʷ] due to the preceding /u/.
2. /r/ becomes voiceless when following voiceless consonants.
   • Example: krif is pronounced as [kr̥iɸ], with the underlying /r/ surfaced as [r̥] due to the voiceless /k/ preceding it.
3. Alveolar stops become retroflex stops (without changing voicing) when following or preceding a retroflex fricative.
   • Example: lazhd is pronounced as [laʐɖʰ], with the underlying /d/ surfaced as [ɖ] due to the preceding /ʐ/.
4. Stops are aspirated when at the end of words.
   • Example: jaq is pronounced as [jaqʰ], with the underlying /q/ aspirated due to it being at the end of the word.
   • This can be changed by morphology; stops do not continue to be aspirated if a suffix is added onto them.
5. /ʝ/ becomes [ç] when following a voiceless consonant.
   • Example: ʕikjhus is pronounced as [ʕi.cçus], with the underlying /ʝ/ surfaced as [ç] due to the voiceless /k/ preceeding it.
6. Alveolar and velar stops become palatal when followed by /ʝ/.
   • Example: ʕikjhus is pronounced as [ʕi.cçus], with the underlying /k/ surfaced as [c] due to the /ʝ/ following it.
7. /ɬ/ becomes [ɮ] when following a voiced consonant.
   • Example: jarblhe is pronounced as [jar.bɮə], with the underlying /ɬ/ surfaced as [ɮ] due to the voiced /b/ preceeding it.
8. /n/ becomes [ɲ] when by a palatal consonant.
   • Example: ãnjez is pronounced as [ã.ɲəz], with the underlying /n/ surfaced as [ɲ] due to the palatal /j/ following it.

Phonotactics

• Nothing
• Any single (non-syllabic) consonant
• Any combination of a non-glottal stop and fricative (in any order) with differing places and equal voicing besides /kxʷ/
• Any non-glottal stop or fricative followed by /r/
• /t͡s/ followed by any fricative that is not alveolar, retroflex, or palatal, or any trill
• /q͡χ/ followed by any biliabial, dental, or alveolar fricative or trill
• Any dental affricate followed by any equally voiced fricative that is not dental or retroflex
• Any consonant besides /ʔ/, /r/, and /ʝ/ followed by /j/
• Any consonant besides /ʔ/, /r/, and /j/ followed by /ʝ/
• Any non-dental fricative, nasal, or stop followed by /ɬ/
• Any fricative, nasal, or stop followed by /l/

• Nothing
• Any single (non-syllabic) consonant besides /j/
• Any combination of two differing stops with equal voicing besides /k/ + /kʷ/ and /k/ + /q/
• Any combination of a stop and fricative (in any order) with equal voicing besides /k/ + /χ/
• Any nasal consonant followed by any stop, fricative, or palatal consonant
• Any lateral consonant followed by any stop, fricative, or nasal besides /ŋ/, and excluding /ɬ/ + a dental consonant
• ...

Romanisation

The romanisation does not account for allophones; it is 1-to-1 of underlying sounds.
Note: There are sounds here that you do not see in the Inventory. This is because the romanisation has every contrast in every dialect; for more information, see Dialects.