Appendix:Shiväisith pronunciation

The Shiväisith language has 21 consonants, 8 vowels with two lengths and 1 glide.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	a	father
d	d	dog
dh	ð	then
e	e	bait
g	g	good
h	h	ham
i	i	beet
j	j	yawn
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no	Assimilates to a following velar consonant.
o	o	moat
p	p	span
r	ɾ	—	Trilled when doubled.
s	s	see
t	t	stop
th	θ	think
u	u	rude
v	v	voice
y	y	—

Phonetics

Shiväisith has a few true palatal sounds and a couple front rounded vowels, as well as a distinction between low front and back vowels.

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m [m]		n [n]	(n [n̠ ~ ŋ ~ ɴ])
Plosive	voiceless	p [p]		t [t]		k [k]	q [q]
	voiced	b [b]		d [d]		g [g]
Fricative	voiceless		(th [θ])	s [s]		(kh [x ~ χ])		h [h]
	voiced	v [v]	dh [ð]	z [z]	j [ʒ]	gh [ɣ ~ ʁ]
Lateral				l [l]
Rhotic				r [ɾ]

Notes:

• [n̠], [ŋ] and [ɴ] are in parentheses because they are not phonemes, but allophones of /n/. The phoneme /n/ assimilates to a following velar, uvular, or possibly even palatal consonant.
• [θ] is in parentheses because it occurs only in words of foreign origin, e.g. Dothraki [ˈdoθraki] "Dothraki."
• [x ~ χ] occurs in borrowings, or words that come directly from Ghiscari.

Vowels

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

Regular	Unround	Round
Close	i [i]	u [u]
Mid	e [e]	o [o]
Open	a [ɑ]

Fronted	Unround	Round
Close	i [i]	y [y]
Mid	e [e]	ö [ø]
Open	ä [æ]

Diphthongs

Shiväisith has a number of diphthongs—so many that's it's esier to list those it doesn't allow as opposed to those it does. Suffice it to say most vowels can occur next to one another.