Czecklish phonology

Phonology

Monophthongs

Modern Khazarian has a total of sixteen oral vowels and twelve nasal vowels. All vowels come in short and long variants. The primary front vowels are /i y e ø/; the back vowels are /o u/ and the central vowels are /ɨ/ and /ɑ/.

Oral Monophthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i y	ɨ	u
Mid	e ø		o
Open		ɑ
*	*	*	*
Close	iː yː	ɨː	uː
Mid	eː øː		oː
Open		ɑː

Nasal Monophthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ĩ	ɨ̃	ũ
Mid	ẽ		õ
Open		ɑ̃
*	*	*	*
Close	ĩː	ɨ̃ː	ũː
Mid	ẽː		õː
Open		ɑ̃ː

Consonants

Pulmonic

	Labial	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n			ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	p b	t d			c ɟ	k g
Affricate	pf	ts dz	tʃ dʒ	tʂ dʐ	tɕ dʑ
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	ʂ ʐ	ɕ ʑ	x ɣ	h
Approximant					j
Trill		r			r̝
L. Approx.		l			ʎ

Syllable Structure

The maximum syllable structure of Czecklish is:

Phonotactics

Onset

Nucleus

Coda

Stress

Primary Stress

Secondary Stress