User:Wakweshi

Cave Slawish Dialect

1. Phonology

Because of being foxes the speakers of the dialect and all of the other dialects don't generaly have any bilabial sounds unless given by loanwords and will never have any uvular sounds because they are impossible without a uvula.

All of the retroflex consonants are subapical, all the dental consonants are apical, and all palato-alveolar consonants are laminal and palatalized.

When near the "dark a" all velars are backed and all other consonants of other places are pharyngealized.

All sonorants are voiced, while all obstruents are voiceless and aspirated when being the onset.

The syllable works in either a closed CVC or open CV types, with the options of at least one onset, and zero coda. And at max four consonants in either the coda or onset or both. Also the nucleus does not have to be a vowel and may be a sonorant or an obstruent (like a fricative) and there must always be a nucleus as well as an onset in every syllable. Dipthongs are allowed for the nucleus.

Lateral trills occur and are trills with a lateral release to them, they are somewhat hard to tell from the regular trills to non-native speakers and are only found in the Rodina language family. (Note: IPA really doesn't have symbols for it)

Approximants may be nasal becoming nasal approximants they are common.

Vowels different between unrounded and sulcalated. Sulcalated means that the sound is grooved like the "s" sound. Instead of most languages unrounded and rounded.

[STOPS]: /

[NASAL STOPS]: /

[FRICATIVES]: /

[LATERAL FRICATIVES]: /

[APPROXIMANTS]: /

[NASAL APPROXIMANTS]: /

[LATERAL APPROXIMANTS]: /

[TRILLS]: /

[LATERAL TRILLS]: /

[VOWELS]: /

2. Grammar