Verse:Mwail/European Neo-Thean

In Angai, Thean (/ˈθiːən/, natively shreñ thiidh (tone?)) is a family of analytic monosyllabic tonal languages in the Trans-Sarnathian family, spoken in Æm Múr. Thean is head-initial and SVO. Modern Standard Thean is inspired by Gwich'in.

Thean is an exonym derived from the Kuam pronunciation of the autonym.

Thean is natively written with logographs.

Phonology of Modern Standard Thean

Initials

	Labial	Inter- dental	Alveolar			Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			plain	sibilant	lateral
Stop (Tone unrestricted)	/p/ b	/tθ/ ddh	/t/ d	/ts/ dz	/tɬ/ dl	/ʈʂ/ dr	/tʃ/ j	/k/ g, /kw/ gw	/ʔ/ ʼ
Fricative (Only L and M class tones)	/f/ f	/θ/ th		/s/ s		/ʂ/ shr	/ʃ/ sh	/x/ x, /xw/ xw	/h/ h
Sonorant (Tone unrestricted)	/m/ m		/n/ n		/l/ l	/ɻ/ r	/j/ y	/w/ w

Medials

The medial is optional. The only allowed medial is /j/ y which cannot occur after retroflexes and /w/.

Nuclei

i, e, a, o, u, ii, ee, aa, oo, uu (as in Gwich'in)

Finals

-t -k -n -ñ -dh -w -j -r /-t -k -n -(nasalization) -ð̠˕ -w -j -ɻ/ (null is allowed)

-ng is not as common as in the Sinosphere

Tone

9 in nonchecked syllables, 3 in checked ones