| Bilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Velar | Uvular | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fortis | p’ | t’ | ʈ’ | q | ||
| mid | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | |||
| plosives | lenis | p | t | ʈ | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɖ | g | ||
| nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||
| fricatives | s | ɕ~ʂ | ||||
| liquids | w | ɾ~ɽ~l~ɭ | χ |
This was the second consonant inventory I did, and I wanted it to have many contrasts and some ejectives. So I went with this one. For the dorsal consonants I shifted the fortis and mid consonants a bit, they became /q/ and /χ/ respectively. The huge free variation in retroflex liquids is just a bit of rhotacism on my side – they all sound the same either way :p
I didn't want to go excessively crazy with the vowels, so I made a four-vowel system and lowered the front vowels a bit and introduced a vowel length distinction.
| Front | Center | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | ɛ ɛː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | ||
| Low | a aː |
That table isn't that accurate but I'm sure you know what I mean. I didn't bother with phonotactics that much this time, so here is the romanization.
| Bilabial | Dental | Retroflex | Velar | Uvular | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fortis | p' | t' | rt' | q | ||
| mid | ph | th | rth | |||
| plosives | lenis | p | t | rt | k | |
| voiced | b | d | rd | g | ||
| nasals | m | n | y | |||
| fricatives | s | c | ||||
| liquids | w | l | h |
| Front | Center | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | e ē | u ū | |
| Mid | i ī | ||
| Low | a ā |
Yeah I know <y> /ŋ/ is a bit weird and all but I like it, feels very un-Eylish. This was today's four-day-ago's apad! See ya next time! Ūrthca!