Proto-Haoli

=Phonology=

Consonants

			Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	Normal	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/		k /k/
		voiced	b /b/	d /d/		g /g/
	Aspirated	voiceless	ph /pʰ/	th /tʰ/		kh /kʰ/
		voiced	bh /bʰ/	dh /dʰ/		gh /gʰ/
	Ejective	voiceless	p' /pʼ/	t' /tʼ/		k' /kʼ/
		voiced	b' /bʼ/	d' /dʼ/		g' /gʼ/
Nasal			m /m/	n /n/
Trill	Normal			r /r/
	Aspirated			rh /rʰ/
Fricative	Normal	voiceless		s /s/			h /h/
		Approximant			j /j/
Lateral Approximant				l /l/

Vowels

Proto-Haoli vowels harmonize based of of roundedness of the first vowel in the word.

	Front		Back
	Rounded	Unrounded Allophones	Rounded Allophones	Unrounded
Close	i /i/	ï [y]	ü [ɯ]	u /u/
Open-Mid	e /ɛ/	ë [œ]	ö [ʌ]	o /ɔ/
Open	a /a/	ä [ɶ]

Phonotactics

• Syllable Structure: (C)V(C)
• Stress always falls on the first syllable