Appendix:Afata pronunciation

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The Afata language has 20 consonants, 6 vowels, and 2 glides.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	ɑ	father
ay	ɑj	lie
b	b	bog
d	d	dog
dh	ð	this
e	e	bait
f	f	food
g	g	good
h	h	ham
i	i	machine
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no
ng	ŋ	sing
o	o	coat
p	p	span
r	ɾ	battle
s	s	see
sh	ʃ	sheep
t	t	stop
th	θ	thin
u	u	rude
ü	y	-	Like German ü in für.
v	v	voice
w	w	wet
y	j	yawn
z	z	zoo
zh	ʒ	casual

Long vowels are held for twice as long as ordinary vowels and are written by doubling letters.

Phonetics

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t d		k g
Fricative	f v	θ ⟨th⟩ ð ⟨dh⟩	s z	ʃ ⟨sh⟩ ʒ ⟨zh⟩		h
Nasal	m		n		ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Approximant	w		l	j ⟨y⟩
Tap			ɾ ⟨r⟩

Vowels

Afata has 6 phonetically distinct vowels with two lengths each:

	Front		Back
	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i iː ⟨ii⟩	y ⟨ü⟩ yː ⟨üü⟩	u uː ⟨uu⟩
Mid	e eː ⟨ee⟩		o oː ⟨oo⟩
Open			ɑ ⟨a⟩ ɑː ⟨aa⟩

There is one diphthong, ay (/ɑj/).

Phonotactics

Afata's syllables follow a (C)V(C/V) structure. Afata lost most of Veda's codas; words can only end with a nasal or s, no consonant clusters occur, and all non-final syllables must be open. Vowel sequences do not occur, and long vowels only occur in open syllables.