Kunesian

Kunesian is a language which is spoken on the same conworld as Bearlandic. It is an isolating language with a rather complex phoneme inventory and a quite messy but still predictable orthography. That is, the orthography is predictable to those who are familiar with it. The language is said to possess every sound you can hear in the jungles of Kunesia, including the sound of the vomiting after eating some poisonous berry (/χ/), that of spitting out the next poisonous berry (/p͡çᶣ/), that of a growling tiger (/rʶ/), and that of a hissing snake, which is simply /s/.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Dental	Alveolo-palatal	Retroflex	Palatal		Velar	Uvular
		Plain	Palatalised				Plain	Labial
Nasal		m	mʲ	n		ɳ	ɲ		ŋ	(ɴ)
Stop	Aspirated	pʰ		tʰ		ʈʰ	cʰ		kʰ	qʰ
	Voiceless	p	pʲ	t	tʲ	ʈ	c		k	q
	Voiced	b	bʲ	d	dʲ	ɖ	ɟ		g	ɢ
Affricate	Voiceless				t͡ɕ			p͡çᶣ
	Voiced			d͡z	d͡ʑ	ɖ͡ʐ	ɟ͡ʝ
Fricative		ɸ		s, θ	ɕ	ʂ	ç	çᶣ	xʷ	χ
Approximant		β					j	ɥ	ɰ	ʁ
Rhotic				ɾ		ɽ͡r				rʶ
Lateral				l		ɭ	ʎ		ɫ

Vowels

	Front		Cenral		Back
	Unrounded	Rounded		Unrounded		Rounded
Close	i	y ~ ʉ		ɨ ~ ɯ		u
Mid	ɛ ~ e	œ ~ ø		ʌ ~ ɤ		ɔ ~ o
Near-open	æ
Open	a			aɨ̯

Pitch-accent

Kunesian has a pitch-accent in which the stressed syllable can have either high or low pitch.

Creaky voice

All vowels distinguish modal and creaky voice.