Emmese

Emmese is a language isolate.

Phonology

Phonemic Inventory

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Dorsal	Glottal
Plosive	p  b	t̪  d̪	t  d	c  ɟ	k  g	ʔ
Fricative	ɸ  β	θ  ð	s  z	ʃ  ʒ	χ	h
Nasal	m	n̪,	n	ɲ	ŋ
Trill			r
Approximant			l	j	w

Many of these consonants are found only in Sandhi or other similar contexts.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	y  ɪ		u  ʊ
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a  ɐ

Emmese has tense-lax vowel harmony throughout its verbal chains, although there are exceptions to this rule.

Grammar

Emmese forms sentences using so-called 'verbal chains'. As an ergative-absolutive language, these always consist of a patient pronoun and a verb.