Taðýric

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 ‹ð›	s̪ ‹s›	ɕ ‹š›
Lateral				l̪‹l›
Approximant		ʋ ‹w›				j ‹j›		ʁ ‹r›3

1. /t/ is realized as [ts] before high vowels.
2. /k/ is lenited to a fricative [x] in coda position.
3. /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).

Vowels

	Front		Back
	Unround	Round
High	i	y	u
Mid	e	ø	ɔ
Low	a

• All vowels can be lax and tense (RTR and non-RTR) 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 (RTR).
• Length and tenseness is represented by an acute accent over the vowel.

Diphthongs

Diphthongs are frequently formed in agglutination. The language has a large and relatively unrestricted vowel inventory for a highly agglutinating language, and diphthong formation is complex:

	Second Vowel
First Vowel	i	y	u	e	ø	o	a
i	í	í	ju	í	jø	jo	ja
y	ý	ý	ju	je	jø	jo	ja
u	wi	wy	ú	we	wø	wo	wa
e	é	é	eu*	é	é	eo*	ea*
ø	ǿ	ǿ	ǿ	ǿ	ǿ	ǿ	ǿ
o	oi	ó	ó	ǿ	ǿ	ó	oa*
a	ai	ai	au	á	á	au	á

• Marked combinations are disyllabic and not true diphthongs.

Phonotactics

Possible syllable structures (where C is a consonant, V is a vowel, A is an approximant, F is a fricative, and N is a nasal) include:

• V
• CV
• CVF
• CVN
• CVr
• CAV
• CAVF
• CAVN
• CAVr

(Where /r/ is realized as a rhoticization of the previous vowel.)

• ð or š before l are written and realized as [s].
• Nasals in contact regressively assimilate.