Iskel

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Phonology

Consonants

Consonants in parentheses currently do not occur in any words, but may appear in the future.

		Labial		Coronal						Palatal		Uvular		Glottal
				Sibilant		Median		Lateral
Stop	Nasal	m	⟨m⟩			n	⟨n⟩			ɲ	⟨ñ⟩	ɴ	⟨ng⟩
	Oral	p b	⟨p b⟩	t͡s d͡z	⟨ds⟩	t	⟨t⟩					q	⟨q⟩
Fricative		ɸ β	⟨f v⟩	s z	⟨dz⟩	θ̠ ð̠	⟨sh zh⟩	ɬ	⟨lh⟩	ç ʝ	⟨jx jj⟩	χ	⟨x⟩	h	⟨h⟩
Trill						r	⟨rr⟩					ʀ	⟨gg⟩
Glide	Oral	w	⟨w⟩			ɾ	⟨r⟩	l	⟨l⟩	j	⟨y⟩
	Nasal	w̃	⟨ẇ⟩					l̃	⟨ŀ⟩	j̃	⟨ẏ⟩
Click	Nasal			ᵑʇ	⟨dn⟩	ᵑǃ¡	⟨cn⟩	(ᵑǁ)	⟨łn⟩	ᵑǂ	⟨jn⟩
	Aspirated			ᵏʇʰ	⟨dh⟩	(ᵏǃ¡ʰ)	⟨ch⟩	(ᵏǁʰ)	⟨łh⟩	(ᵏǂʰ)	⟨jh⟩
	Tenuis			ᵏʇ	⟨dk⟩	ᵏǃ¡	⟨ck⟩	ᵏǁ	⟨łk⟩	ᵏǂ	⟨jk⟩
	Glottalized			ᵏʇˀ	⟨d'⟩	(ᵏǃ¡ˀ)	⟨c'⟩	(ᵏǁˀ)	⟨ł'⟩	(ᵏǂˀ)	⟨j'⟩

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
							Close	i	⟨i⟩	ʊ	⟨û⟩	ɯ u	⟨ı u⟩
Close-Mid	e	⟨e⟩	ə	⟨ŷ⟩	o	⟨o⟩
Open-Mid	ɛ	⟨ê⟩			ɔ	⟨ô⟩
Open	a	⟨a⟩			ɑ	⟨â⟩

Stress

Iskel has primary and secondary stress, both of which are phonemic. A word can have any number of primary and secondary stresses.

Primary stress can be written with ⟨»⟩ and secondary stress with ⟨›⟩, but this is rarely written. Even when stress is written, word-initial primary stress is not written unless there is another primary stress in the word.

Some affixes may make otherwise unstressed syllables stressed.