Quetch

X-3
Spoken in:	n.a.
Timeline/Universe:	n.a.
Total speakers:	n.a.
Genealogical classification:	a priori experimental language
Basic word order:	VSO, free
Morphological type:	fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	fluid-S
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier	2006

X-3 is an experimental language by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is a speedtalk-style language with a huge phoneme inventory allowing for very short words.

Phonology

The phoneme inventory of X-3 is very large: it contains 250 consonants, 40 vowels and four tones, which means that there are as many as 40,000 CV syllables.

Vowels

There are 10 basic vowel qualities:

	Front unrounded	Front rounded	Back unrounded	Back rounded
High	i	ü	ï	u
Mid	e	ö	ë	o
Low	ä		a

Each of these ten vowels can be short or long and plain or nasalized, making a total of 40 vowels.

Tones

There are four tones in X-3: high, low, rising and falling.