Emegi

Emegi is effectively a modern descendant of a conworld equivalent of Sumerian, which in this case existed around 50BC. This is highly subject to change.

Phonology

Table of Emegi vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e	ə	o
Open mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open	a æ

Table of Old Emegi consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p   b		t   d		k   g	ʔ
Nasal	m		n		ŋ
Flap			ɾ
Fricative		v	s   z	ʃ	x	h
Lateral			l

Old to Mid-Emegi

Intervocalic lenition.

Merging of rhotics /r/ and /ɾ/.

/s/ and /z/ begin to merge into /z/.

Aspiration of /t/.

/u/s following voiced consonants begin to shift to /o/.

/i/s following voiced consonants begin to shift to /ɨ/.

/e/ and /o/ become /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ after voiced consonants.

/a/s following voiceless consonants begin to shift to /æ/.

Mid to early modern Emegi

Loss of final schwa.

Replacement of liaison /t/ with /ʔ/.

Overaspiration of initial /t/ leads to development into /s/.

Development of /w/ via word-initial l-vocalisation.

/t/ and /d/ velarised before back vowels.

/ɨ/ begins to shift to /ə/

Early modern Emegi

Initial devoicing occurs

Non-initial /t/ and /d/ dentalised

Modern Emegi

/ħ/ replaces /h/ initially in most dialects, including the standard language, under Arabic influence.

Orthography

Consonants

Letter	IPA
B	/b/
D	/d/
C	/x/
G	/g/
H	/h/
J	/ħ/
K	/k/
L	/l/
M	/m/
N	/n/
Ň	/ŋ/
P	/p/
R	/ɾ/
S	/s/
Š	/ʃ/
T	/t/
V	/v/
W	/w/

Vowels

Letter	IPA
a	/a/
aa	/æ/
e	/ɛ/, /ə/
eu	/e/
o	/ɔ/
ou	/o/
u	/u/

Morphology

Cases

Case	Ending
Absolutive	-/
Ergative	-(a)
Genitive/Locative	-a(k)
Dative*	-r(a)
Ablative/Instrumental	-t(â)