Appendix:Aazh Naamori pronunciation

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The Aazh Naamori language has 16 consonants, 13 vowels, and no glides.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	ɑ ~ a	father
an	ɑ̃ ~ ã	—	A nasal vowel. Pronounced like the vowel in French danse.
b	b	bog
d	d	dog
e	ɛ ~ e	get
en	ɛ̃ ~ ẽ	—	A nasal vowel. Pronounced like the vowel in French prince.
g	ɡ	good
i	i	machine
k	k	skill
kh	x	—	Pronounced like the ch in German Buch.
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no
o	ɔ ~ o	law
on	ɔ̃ ~ õ	—	A nasal vowel. Pronounced like the vowel in French bon.
p	p	span
r	ɾ, r	battle, —	A trill like in Spanish perro at the beginning or end of a word. Elsewhere, a tap like in English battle or Spanish pero.
s	s	see
sh	ʃ	shade
t	t	stop
u	u	rude
v	v	voice
z	z	zoo
zh	ʒ	casual

Notes:

• Long variants exist for the oral (non-nasal) vowels, which are written in the romanization by doubling the vowel letter.

Phonetics

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	voiced	b	d		g
Fricative	voiceless		s	sh [ʃ]	kh [x]
	voiced	v	z	zh [ʒ]
Liquid			l, r [ɾ]

Vowels

Aazh Naamori has five oral vowels with two lengths and three nasal vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i, ii [iː]		u, uu [uː]
Mid	e, ee [eː] en [ẽ]		o, oo [oː] on [õ]
Open		a, aa [aː] an [ã]

Phonotactics

Aazh Naamori has simple phonotactics, almost of its syllabes are open, a word may only end with a vowel (short, long, or nasal) or a sibilant (voiceless or voiced), and no codas are found word-medially. Syllable-initially, 2-consonants clusters are allowed, they must consist of an obstruent followed by a liquid. Vowels are lengthened before word-final voiced sibilants.

Stress

Main stress falls on the antepenultimate syllable, unless another is heavier, in which case it will be stressed instead. When a word contains multiple heavy syllables, stress falls on the final syllable if it is heavy, otherwise it falls on the antepenultimate. In a 4-syllable word, if the first and third syllables are heavy and the others light, the penultimate syllable is stressed. Superheavy word-final syllables are always stressed.