Kalyahekwe

Kalyah language
Kalyahekwe
Pronunciation	[/kal.ˈja.hɛ.kʷɛ/]
Created by	Raistas
Setting	planet Liifam
Ethnicity	Kalyaheen
Language family	Settameric languages Western Plains languages Kalyah language
Early form	Proto-Settameric

Kalyah (with four varieties, known as Möhkinis, Teimyois, Šonoowis and Eihtoomis) is a language, spoken in the western part of a vast flat region of the Northern continent, simply called the Plains. The most commonly spoken variety is Teimyois, it is referred to as an "ð-dialect", because the *θ is still distinct in most cases as a phoneme /ð/. The grammar and the examples used here are from Teimyois, but data on other dialects will be given as well.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental		Postalveolar	Velar		Glottal
					plain	labialized
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p	t			k	kw /kʷ/
Fricative		θ	s	š /ʃ/			h
Affricate		/t͡s/		/t͡ʃ/
Approximant	w	ð		y /j/
Lateral Approximant		l

Vowels

	Front		Back
long	short	long	short
Close	ii |[iː]	i [ɪ]	oo [oː~uː]
Near-Close	i [ɪ]
o [o~ʊ]
	Mid	ee [eː]
Near-Open	e [ɛ]
Open			a [a]	aa [ɑː]