User:Juhhmi/Irbel

Irbel /iɹ.vʲeʎ/ is an a priori language isolate spoken in one of the Western Kingdoms of eastern Sword of Vortex.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal			n		ɲ
Plosive	p		t		c	k
Fricative		f v	s	ʒ	ɕ ç	x	h
Approximant			ɹ
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l		ʎ

Affricates: /t͡ɕ/ and /d͡ʑ/

Coarticulated consonants: /w/, /ɥ/ and /ɧ/

Vowels

Monophthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ʉ	u
Near-close	ɪ
Close-mid	e ø	ɘ
Mid		ə
Near-open	æ
Open		ä	ɑ

Diphthongs

Graphemes y and w in coda are used to form diphthongs ay /äɪ̯/, ey /ei̯/ and aw /ɑʊ̯/ which occur both word-finally and before consonants. Between vowels, they form long semi-vowels /j:/ and /w:/.

Orthography

The language is written with a modified Westlang (Latin) alphabet script. Notable is the phonemic palatalization which naturally occurs in consonants before front vowels /e/ and /i/. Attempts to express this have accumulated into a complex system.

• Palatalizing front vowels: ı used with u, and e with a.
• Pronounced front vowels: i and ė

Word-final version are included after / if different, and /* means that the grapheme isn't used word-finally.

Consonant pairs

Grapheme	Plain	Palatalized
p	p/pʰ	pʲ
b	v/f	vʲ/fʲ
n	n	ɲ
t	t/tʰ	t͡ɕ
s	s	ɕ
r	r	ɹ
l	l	lʲ/ʎ
x	x	ç
c	k/x	c/ç
g	ks	ɧ
j	j/ʒ	d͡ʑ
v/*	w	ɥ

• Word-initial w before a vowel is realized as /əw/ and word-initial y as /əj/. In coda, w is only after a and y only after a and e.

Ligatures

Grapheme	Phoneme	Notes
q	kɘ
d	kɪ
f	ç	After a
k	ç	After u
m	n:	Between vowels
w	w:	Between vowels
y	j:	Between vowels

Digraphs

Grapheme	Phoneme	Notes
cı	c	Before u
	cʰ	After u, e and i
ce	c	Before a
oc	kʰ	Word-finally
ot	tʰ	After e and i
aw	ɑʊ̯
ay	äɪ̯
ey	ei̯
eu	ø
ia	æ

cıuq /cʉkɘ/, ciu /cihu/, cead /cäkɪ/, cėa /cehɑ/