Bantoid conlang - phonology

While subbing for a roudy class of 4th graders who
could use some anger management and some superglue to
keep them in their seats, I got to thinking about an
old abandoned conlang.

Ndizvozvo is a Bantu-inspired lang.  I need to pull
out my old notes on the language and see how what I
came up with today jibes with what I had before, but I
thought I'd just run the new version by ya'll for your
consideration.

Phonology:

Vowels:

i   u
e   o
  a

Consonants:

p    t    k
b    d    g
m    n    N
m_b  n_d  N_g

f  s_f  s  S
v  z_v  z  Z

r/l
t_K  d_K

w  y  h  ?

|tf|  t_s  t_S
|dv|  d_z  d_Z

I'm pretty sure I have misnotated s_f/z_v and I have
no idea how to properly note |tf|/|dv|.

Sf is a sound which occurs in Shona.  It is a sort of
simutaneous articulation of /f/ and a post-alveolar
sibilant articulated about halfway between my /s/ and
my /S/.

|tf| is a sort of affricate with the stop portion
being a lamino-labial stop and the fricative protion
being /T/.

The other two are the voiced counterparts of said.

Ideas on how to represent these sounds in IPA and
X-Sampa or whatever we're using now?

Adam



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Machu 1:9-10

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