Verse:Mwail/Qocwane
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Polynuosu (placeholder name) is a language mainly inspired by Nuosu and Finnic.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) Palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | |||||||
| Nasal | unvoiced | |||||||
| voiced | ||||||||
| Stop/ Affricate |
unvoiced | |||||||
| aspirated | ||||||||
| voiced | ||||||||
| prenasalized | ||||||||
| Continuant | unvoiced | |||||||
| voiced | ||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Non-front | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| Syllabic consonant |
loose | z̩ ŷ | v̩ʷ û | |
| tight | z̠̩ y | v̠̩ʷ u | ||
| Close | loose | e̝ ê | ɤ̝ â | o̝ ô |
| Open-mid | tight | ɛ e | ɔ o | |
| Open | a a | |||
Polynuosu has ATR/RTR vowel harmony:
- ATR: ŷ û ê â ô
- RTR: y u e a o