Appendix:Hen Linge pronunciation

The Shiväisith language has 17 consonants, 8 vowels with two lengths and 2 glides.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	a	father
d	d	dog
e	ɛ	bet
ei	e	bait
f	f	food
g	ɡ	good
h	h	ham
i	i	beet
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no	Assimilates to a following velar consonant.
o	o	moat
ö	ø	—	Like e pronounced with rounded lips.
p	p	span
r	ɾ	Like the t in batte.
s	s	see
sh	ʃ	sheep
t	t	stop
th	θ	think
u	u	rude
v	v	voice
w	w	wet
y	j/ɨ	Like the y in young or the e in chicken.	Pronounced as a glide before a vowel; otherwise pronounced as a vowel.
z	z	zone

Phonetics

Hen Linge has a front rounded vowel that shows up from time to time and a central unrounded vowel, but is otherwise fairly plain in terms of its phonology.

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m [m]		n [n]		(n [ŋ])
Plosive	voiceless	p [p]		t [t]		k [k]
	voiced	b [b]		d [d]		g [g]
Fricative	voiceless	f [f]	th [θ]	s [s]	sh [ʃ]		h [h]
	voiced	v [v]		z [z]
Lateral				l [l]
Rhotic				r [ɾ]

Vowels

Shiväisith has 8 phonetically distinct vowels which occur in two thematic contexts:

	Front	Mid	Back
Close	i [i]	y [ɨ]	u [u]
Mid	ei [e], e [ɛ]		ö [ø], o [o]
Open		a [a]

Diphthongs

Hen Linge has the dipthongs ai, ie, io, and öi [øy]. The former diphthong ei is now simply [e] and contrasts with plain e [ɛ].