User:Ceige/A-Priori-kun

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Phonology

Onsets

  • V
  • M
  • L - often merges with N to form a lightly nasalised lateral L in #1
  • N
  • Sz - (T)Sh in #1, Zh in #2 (may or may not only appear with back vowels and one off schwa when retroflex?)
  • Y
  • X - K
  • (R) - Before back vowels
  • H - Merges with X to form K~X~H in #2
  • NULL

Vowels

  • I
  • U
  • Ä
  • A

Codas

  • Y
  • W
  • N - Becomes a velar-and-beyond nasal in #1, splits into -ng and -n in #2 (see below)
  • P (> Q)
  • T (> Q)
  • K (> Q)
  • Q (> Q)

Vowel + Coda combinations

  • IN/ÄN > -eng in #1
  • UN/AN > -ong in #1
  • IN/UN > -ün in #2
  • ÜN from UN > IM ~ ÜM (therefore kin > kun, kun > kim)
  • AN/ÄN > -ang in #2
  • IW > ü/iu
  • UY > ü/ui
  • AY > ay/ai
  • ÄY > äy/ei
  • AW > aw/ou
  • ÄW > äw/au