Syltanennie

Syltanennie /ɕʏlteːnɛɲə/ is one of the official languages of Svendie, a region of Leporia.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Labio-Dental	Dental Apical	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	p b		t d	c ɟ	k g
Sibilant Fric.			s z	ɕ ʑ
Non-sibilant Fric.		f v	θ ð	ç		ʁ
Nasal	m		n	ɲ
Lateral			l
Approximate				j	w

/θ/ and /ç/ are often voiced when intervocalic and neither of the vowels are stressed. /ç/ may even merge with /j/ in such cases.

/ð/ is very rare word-initially and is often exists just an allophonic voiced /θ/. However, loan words and the prefixation and voicing of the definite article /ðɪ/ have introduced a few minimal pairs, making /ð/ a marginal phoneme.

/j/ and /w/ are both realized as [ɥ] when they precede /uː/ and /iː/ respectively.

Vowles

	Front	Central	Back
High	iː yː		ɯː uː
Near-High	ɪ ʏ		ɯ̽ ʊ
Mid-High	eː		oː
Middle		ə
Mid-Low	ɛ ɛ̃ː		ɔ ɔ̃ː
Low		a	ɑ̃ː

/ə/ only exists in word-final positions in polysyllabic words and is often extra-short [ə̆]. However, other vowels can also exist in the position so it is a marginal phoneme.

When back vowels precede palatals, they tend to become fronted, as the following:
/ɯː/ to [ɨː]
/uː/ to [ʉː]
/ɯ̽/ to [ɘ̝]
/ʊ/ to [ɵ̝]
/oː/ to [ɵː~øː]
/ɔ/ to [ɞ~œ]
/ɔ̃ː/ to [œ̃ː]
/a/ to [æ]
/ɑ̃ː/ to [ʌ̃ː]