my phonology

I would like to show the phonology of my conlang to get commentaries


            bilab labioden alveo postalveo pala velar uvular glot

aspirated     2      2       2       0      0     2     0      0
plosives

unaspirated   2      2       2       2      0     2     2      1
plosives

fricatives    2      2       2       2      0     2     2      1

affricates    2      2       2       2      0     2     2      1

nasals        1      1       1       1      0     1     1      0

labialised    2      0       2       0      0     2     0      0
plosives

palatalized   2      0       2       0      0     2     0      0
plosives

trill         1      0       1       0      0     0     1      0

ejec/implo    2      0       2       0      0     2     0      0


(the velar approximant is rounded)

There are also the voiced and unvoiced linguo-labial plosives

0: not in my phonology
1: there is only the voiced one (except the 3 glottals that are voiceless)
2: there are the voiced and the unvoiced ones



            Front     Central     Back

Close        1/1        0/0        0/1
                 1/0           0/1
Close-mid    1/1        0/0        0/1
                         1
Open-mid     2/2        0/0        0/2
                         1
Open         2/0        0/0        0/0


(Unrounded/rounded)

0: not in my phonology
1: present in the phonology
2: present in the phonology and also its nasalized version



That way, I have 76 consonants and 18 vowels

But at the end of a word, there could have kinds of reverse affricates like
[dZ] becoming [Zd] to link 2 words in a sentense like in comparison

more... than -> these words may be linked by that kind of thing: one is
"tadZ" and the other "taZd" so the link is obvious

example
tall: nik
you: ze

"tadZ nik taZd ze" means "taller than you"

so, if I reverse each of my affricates except the glottal one (it seems hard
to pronounse) it adds 12 consonants at end of words

There are a lot af sounds but I chose some that are not to much similar to
keep it simple to differentiate


so the possibilities of the words are:

V:                   = 18
V-V:    18 x 18      = 324
C-V:    76 x 18      = 1368
V-C:    18 x (76+12) = 1584
C-V-C : 76 x 18 x 88 = 120,384
                 Sum = 123,354

I have all I need of words and, that way, I can clearly divide the words

V and V-V (or more vowels) are pronouns, articles, and conjonctions
C-V are adjectives
V-C are adverbs
C-V-C are verbs

and anything longer is a proper name


commentaries?

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