Zhuori

Zhuori is the language spoken by the upper class in a currently unnamed commission project by Elmer Johnson.

Orthography

Zhuori uses an abugida, which is a work in progress.

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	Unvoiced	p ‹P›		t ‹T›			k ‹K›
	Voiced	b ‹B›		d ‹D›			g ‹G›
Nasal		m ‹M›		n ‹N›			ŋ ‹NG›
Fricative	Unvoiced	ɸ ‹F›	θ ‹TH›	s ‹S›	ʃ ‹SH›
	Voiced	β ‹V›		z ‹Z›	ʒ ‹ZH›
Approximant				r ‹R›		j ‹Y›		h ‹H›
Lateral				l ‹L›

Vowels

Vowel length is phonemic.

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ‹I› · y ‹Y›	ʉ ‹U›	u ‹O›
Mid	e ‹E›	ə	o ‹Ǫ›
Low	a ‹A›

Diphthongs

Zhuori has many diphthongs, both rising and falling.

Rising:

IPA	Orth.
aɪ	AY
aʊ	AU
eɪ	EY
oɪ	UY
oʊ	OU

Falling:

IPA	Orth.
ia	IA
iʊ	IU
ʉʊ	UO

Phonotactics

Appropriate complex onsets (word-initial) include: ST, SR, SK, TR and KR.
Appropriate complex codas (word-final) include: ST, TS, RS, SK, KS, RT, and RK.