User:Nicolasstraccia/afghanisketch

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This is Sketch C, based on the premises stated in the description of commission N°271 in the LCS's Jobs Board. This should probably furthermore be seen primarily as a sketching exercise, since I'm not very likely to be able to meet the stated deadline.

Premise as stated in the job description:
"Vaguely Afghan — mountain primitives and coastal dwellers (depending) — we only meet the mountain primitives — with a territory-raiding and cross-breeding relationship to (A)."

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Phonology and orthography

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i(ː) u(ː) e(ː) o(ː) ə æ äː ɒ
Near‑close
Close‑mid
Mid
Open‑mid
Near‑open
Open

Consonants

	Labial				Coronal								Dorsal						Labiovelar		Laryngeal
	Bilabial		Labiodental		Dental		Alveolar		Palatoalveolar		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar		Uvular				Glottal
Plosive	p	b			t	d					[ʈ]	[ɖ]			k	g	[q]	[ɢ]			ʔ
Nasal		m						n				[ɳ]		ɲ		ŋ				ŋʷ
Trill								r
Tap/flap								ɾ
Fricative	ɸ	β	[f]	[v]	θ	[ð]	s	z	ʃ	ʒ	[ʂ]	[ʐ]	[ç]	[ʝ]	x	ɣ			xʷ		h
Africate							ʦ	ʣ	ʧ	ʤ
Approximant								ɹ						j						w
Lateral Appr.								l

Phonotaxis

Syllable structure

Syllables may be structured as (C)(S)V(S)(C(C)), consisting of an optional syllable onset, one consonant; an obligatory syllable nucleus, a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, one or two consonants. The following restrictions apply:

• Onset
  • Consonant (C): can be any consonant. (composed only of one consonant; consonant clusters are only found in loanwords, sometimes an epenthetic /ə/ is inserted between consonants.)
• Nucleus
  • Semivowel (S)
  • Vowel (V)
  • Semivowel (S)
• Coda
  • First consonant (C): can be any consonant.
  • Second consonant (C): can also be any consonant (mostly /d/, /k/, /s/, /t/, & /z/).

Allophony

Phoneme	Allophone	Environment

Clusters

/tl/, /kl/, /bl/, /ɣl/, /lm/, /nm/, /lw/, /sw/, /br/, /tr/, /ɣr/, /pr/, /dr/, /wr/, /kɹ/, /mɹ/, /xp/, /pʃ/, /pʂ/, /xr/, /zb/, /ʒb/, /ʣm/, /mʣ/, /ʦk/, /sk/, /sp/, /ʃp/, /ʂk/, /xk/, /ʃk/, /kʃ/, /kx/, /kʂ/, /ml/, /gm/, /ʐm/

Orthography

Latin transcription

• Vowels

IPA

i

iː

e

eː

o

oː

u

uː

ɒ

äː

æ

ə

Romanization

i

ī

e

ē

o

ō

u

ū

a

ā

ä

ë

• Consonants

IPA

p

b

t

d

k

g

ʔ

m

n

ɲ

ŋ

ŋʷ

r

ɹ

l

j

w

Romanization

p

b

t

d

k

g

'

m

n

ń

ṇ

ṇw

ŕ

r

l

y

w

Alternative romanization

p

b

t

d

k

g

'

m

n

ny

ng

ngw

rr

rh

l

y

w

IPA

ɸ

β

θ

s

z

ʃ

ʒ

ç

ʝ

x

ɣ

xʷ

h

ʦ

ʣ

ʧ

ʤ

Romanization

f

v

ϑ

s

z

ṣ

ẓ

ĉ

ĵ

x

ǵ

xw

h

ts

dz

ć

ś

Alternative romanization

f

v

th

s

z

sh

zh

sy

gy

x

gh

xw

h

ts

dz

ch

dj