Jaqatil

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Yangatil
Jaŋatil
Pronunciation	[/jaŋa'til/]
Created by	Yaqatil
Language family	Altaic Turkic Yangatil

Sounds

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p   b		t   d			k   g	ʔ
Fricative	β	f	s   z	ʃ			h
Affricate					tɕ
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Trill			r
Approximant			l		j

• /f/, /h/, /ʔ/ are only used in loanwords.
• /v/ or /w/ are allowed instead of /β/.
• /tʃ/, /ts/ or /ɕ/ are allowed instead of /tɕ/.
• At the beginning of a word /dʒ/, /dz/, /dʑ/, /ʑ/ or /ʒ/ are allowed instead of /j/.
• /h/ is interchangeable with /χ/.
• In a hard context /q/, /ʁ/ (/ɣ/) are allowed instead of /k/, /g/ respectively.
• In a soft context /k^j/, /g^j/, /l^j/ are allowed instead of /k/, /g/, /l/ respectively.
• In native words the difference between p/t/k and b/d/g, isn't very meaningful.

Vowels

	Front		Back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Close	i	y	ɯ	u
Open	æ	œ	a	o

Characteristics of the vowels

	Strong		Weak
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Hard	a	o	ɯ	u
Soft	æ	œ	i	y

Vowel harmony

In a native Jaŋatil word each vowel must be either soft (front) or hard (back). This is called front/back harmony. The same is true for loanwords with the exception of letter i — we can combine it not only with the soft e, i, ö, ü but also with the hard a, ı, o, u. Thus any loanword written in the standard Latin alphabet can be borrowed without change.

There is no rounded/unrounded harmony in the written language. Therefore in native words the weak rounded vowels u, ü may only be in the first syllable. However, one should round ı, i while speaking when they come immediately after a rounded vowel.

Word stress

Word stress is always put on the last vowel. But if you want to emphasize a word then you may stress another syllable.