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Revision as of 21:22, 20 March 2014
Mésylþo is my ongoing effort - one that's been scrapped and reworked a good number of times - to create the most beautiful language possible to my sensibilities. I have developed a keyboard layout for typing the characters used in the written language.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveopalatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p ‹p› | t̪ ‹t›1 | k ‹c›2 | |||||
| Nasal | m ‹m› | n ‹n› | ||||||
| Fricative | f ‹f› | θ ‹þ› | s̪ ‹s› | ɕ ‹š› | ||||
| Lateral | l̪‹l› | |||||||
| Approximant | ʋ ‹w› | j ‹j› | ʁ ‹r›3 |
- /t/ is realized as [ts] before high vowels.
- /k/ is lenited to a fricative [x] in coda position.
- /r/ has many possible realizations, including a trill (in a complex onset), rhoticization of the previous vowel (in coda position), or a uvular approximant (in onset position).
- Plosives may not occur word-finally.
- Consonant clusters within syllables do not exist.
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unround | Round | ||
| High | i | y | u |
| Mid | e | ø | ɔ |
| Low | a | ||
All vowels can be long and short apart from /ɔ/ (written ‹o›). Long vowels are realized as the vowel with a schwa offglide (ie /iː/ > [iə]). Short vowels are lax versions of long vowels (non-RTR).
Length and tenseness is represented by an acute accent over the nuclear vowel of the accented syllable.
