Syltanennie

Syltanennie /ɕʏlteːnɛɲə/ is one of the official languages of Ettêre Ðiffyt, prior to the nation's renovation as Leporia, it was an official language exclusive to the region of Sevanpiec, which was called Svendie back then.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Labio-Dental	Dental	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
Nasal	m		n	ɲ
Lateral			l
Approximate				j	w	ʁ

The dentals are dental-apical.

Although /ʁ/ is shown to be an approximate for phonological reasons, it is pronounced as a uvular fricative.

/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 plus 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 ʊ/ and /iː ɪ/ 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]

Syllable Structure

(C)(L)V *Generally

• Any consonant can start a syllable.
• V can be any vowel.
• C + L can be any non-palatal obstruent (stops and fricatives) + liquid (laterals and approximates) respectively.
• More complex syllables can come about through contracted words and constructions: most notably, /ʁ/ + (/j/ or /w/) only exists in contracted constructions and not in any root.
• Word-internal clusters, i.e. there must be a vowel immediately preceding and proceeding the cluster (and the preceding vowel cannot be a nasal vowel), can be either:

1. 1. (/ʁ/ or /l/) + any obstruent (stops and fricatives), or
   2. Two fricatives that agree in voicing, the preceding fricative cannot be palatal, the proceeding fricative can be any fricative.^[1]

^[1]Again, although /ʁ/ is phonetically a fricative it is phonologically an approximate, meaning it is not subject to the voicing agreement restrictions of double fricative clusters.