Appendix:Castithan pronunciation

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The Castithan language has 22 consonants, 5 vowels, and 2 glides.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	a	father
b	b	bog
ch	tʃ	watch
d	d	dog
dh	ð	than
e	e	bait
f	f	food
g	g	good
h	h	ham
i	i	beet
j	dʒ	judge
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no
ng	ŋ	sing	Can occur at the beginning of a word.
o	o	coat
p	p	span
r	ɾ	battle
s	s	see
sh	ʃ	sheep
t	t	stop
th	θ	think
u	u	rude
v	v	voice
w	w	wet
y	j	yawn
z	z	zoo
zh	ʒ	azure

Phonetics

Castithan features a lot of assimilation, as well as word-final vowel simplification.

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m [m]	n [n]		ny [ɲ]	ng [ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p [p]		t [t]	ch [tʃ]	k [k]
	voiced	b [b]		d [d]	j [dʒ]	g [g]
Fricative	voiceless	f [f]	th [θ]	s [s]	sh [ʃ]		h [h]
	voiced	v [v]	dh [ð]	z [z]	zh [ʒ]
Lateral				l [l]
Approximant		w [w]		r [ɾ]	y [j]

Vowels

Castithan has 5 phonetically distinct vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i [i]		u [u]
Mid	e [e]		o [o]
Open		a [ɐ~ɑ]