Pradiul

Placeholder for a Þiúsьk-inspired descendant of Old Windermere

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Velar		Glottal
		hard	soft	hard	soft	hard	soft	hard	soft	soft	hard
Nasal		m	mʲ	n̪	nʲ					ŋʲ	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	pʲ	t̪	tʲ					kʲ	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	bʲ	d̪	dʲ					gʲ	g
Affricate				ts	tsʲ			tʃ	tʃʲ
Fricative		f	fʲ	θˠ	θʲ	s	sʲ	ʃ	ʃʲ	ç	x	h
Resonant		v	vʲ	ɫ	lʲ	ɾ	ɾʲ			j

Only hard consonants are allowed word-finally.

Initial voiceless stops were traditionally not aspirated, but are commonly aspirated now.

Vowels

a/ia y/i u/iu aa/iaa yy/ii uu/iuu /a e o uə i u/ (double letters were historical breathy vowels)

Unstressed: only /ə/

Phonotactics

Zero and C are the only permitted word-final codas.

Allowed initial clusters are similar to Germanic. Here is a list (modulo palatalization) by type of cluster (some clusters may be listed more than once):

• Cl: pl, tl, tsl, cl, bl, gl, fl, chl, sl
• Cr: pr, tr, tsr, cr, br, dr, gr, fr, thr, chr, sr
• Cm: tm, thm, cm, chm, sm
• Cn: fn, cn, chn, sn
• Cng: fng, tng, thng, chng, sng
• Cv: tv, thv, cv, chv, gv, sv, šv
• sC: sp, st, sc, sm, sn, sng, sl, sr, sw
• chC: chm, chn, chng, chl, chr

Voiced stops are not allowed to begin minor syllables in roots. This rule does not apply to proper names.