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Mésylþo is my ongoing effort - one that's been scrapped and reworked a good number of times - to create the most beautiful language possible to my sensibilities. I have developed a keyboard layout for typing the characters used in the written language.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveopalatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p ‹p› | t̪ ‹t›1 | k ‹c›2 | |||||
| Nasal | m ‹m› | n ‹n› | ||||||
| Fricative | f ‹f› | θ ‹ð› | s̪ ‹s› | ɕ ‹š› | ||||
| Lateral | l̪‹l› | |||||||
| Approximant | ʋ ‹w› | j ‹j› | ʁ ‹r›3 |
- /t/ is realized as [ts] before high vowels.
- /k/ is lenited to a fricative [x] in coda position.
- /r/ has many possible realizations, including a trill (in a complex onset), rhoticization of the previous vowel (in coda position), or a uvular approximant (in onset position).
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unround | Round | ||
| High | i | y | u |
| Mid | e | ø | ɔ |
| Low | a | ||
- All vowels can be lax and tense (RTR and non-RTR) apart from /ɔ/ (written ‹o›). Long vowels are realized as the vowel with a schwa offglide (ie /iː/ > [iə]). Short vowels are lax versions of long vowels (RTR).
- Length and tenseness is represented by an acute accent over the vowel.
Diphthongs
Diphthongs are frequently formed in agglutination. The language has a large and relatively unrestricted vowel inventory for a highly agglutinating language, and diphthong formation is complex:
| Second Vowel | |||||||
| First Vowel | i | y | u | e | ø | o | a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| i | í | í | ju | í | jø | jo | ja |
| y | ý | ý | ju | je | jø | jo | ja |
| u | wi | wy | ú | we | wø | wo | wa |
| e | é | é | eu* | é | é | eo* | ea* |
| ø | ǿ | ǿ | ǿ | ǿ | ǿ | ǿ | ǿ |
| o | oi | ó | ó | ǿ | ǿ | ó | oa* |
| a | ai | ai | au | á | á | au | á |
- Marked combinations are disyllabic and not true diphthongs.
Phonotactics
Possible syllable structures (where C is a consonant, V is a vowel, A is an approximant, F is a fricative, and N is a nasal) include:
- V
- CV
- CVF
- CVN
- CVr
- CAV
- CAVF
- CAVN
- CAVr
(Where /r/ is realized as a rhoticization of the previous vowel.)
- ð or š before l are written and realized as [s].
- Nasals in contact regressively assimilate.
