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Ryuunish Phonology
The phonology is mostly taken directly from the source material,
with a few creative liberties taken to fill in various gaps.
Vowels
|
|
Front |
Central |
Back |
| Close |
ɪ i | | u uː |
| Mid |
e eː | | o oː |
| Open |
| a aː | ʌ |
Diphthongs: ai, ui
Consonants
|
|
Labial |
Coronal |
Postalveolar |
Dorsal |
Glottal |
| Nasal |
m | n | | | |
| Plosive |
p b | t d | | k g | |
| Fricative |
f v | s z | ʃ ʒ | | h |
| Affricate |
| ts dz | | | |
| Approximant |
w | l ɹ | | j | (w) |
Some consonants may also be geminated. Gemination rules yet to be worked out.
All nasals, plosives and unvoiced fricatives may be geminated. Nothing else may be geminated.
Gemination is infrequent (perhaps 0.1-0.15 cases of the most frequently geminated consonant.
The following information is useful more for constructing vocabulary than for language reference.
Phoneme Frequencies
I decided that roughly targeting a specific distribution of phonemes would be useful
when coming up with vocabulary that fits the overall feel of Ryuunish.
For the most part I just took the given phonemes and shuffled things around
until they looked good to me.
I actually probably want /ai/ a bit more common than /ʌ/. These are very rough guidelines,
and should not be adhered to strictly.
Similarly for the consonants some of the back fricatives may be a bit more frequent than on these chart.
Gemination frequencies tbd.
Phonotactics
(C)(C)V(C)(C) syllable structure, although two coda consonants are quite rare.
Nucleus may contain any vowel, and only a vowel.
Coda may not contain a /w/, /j/ or /h/.
Ryuunish should sound somewhat noble and powerful, and awkward phoneme combinations don't really help that.
At most two consonants between vowels in a word.
Consonant clusters have been developed and are in a spreadsheet somewhere.
I will figure out a way to post them later