Appendix:Vōv pronunciation

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The Vōv language has 13 consonants, 6 short vowels and 5 long vowels.

Standard Romanization

Letter	IPA	English example	Notes
a	a	father
ā	aː	father, but longer
b	b	bog
d	d	dog
e	e	bait
ē	eː	bait, but longer
ǝ	ǝ	sofa
g	g	good
h	h	ham
i	i	beet
ī	iː	beet, but longer
k	k	skill
l	l	left
m	m	man
n	n	no
o	o	coat
ō	oː	coat, but longer
q	q	-	Like a [k] but further back in the mouth.
r	r	-	Spanish perro
s	s	see
t	t	stop
u	u	rude
ū	uː	rude, but longer
v	v	voice

Phonetics

Vōv's [ǝ] is a phoneme with equal status to all the other vowels.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiceless		t	k	q
	voiced	b	d	g
Fricative	voiceless		s			h
	voiced	v
Lateral			l
Trill			r

Vowels

Vōv has 6 phonetically distinct short vowels, but only 5 phonetically distinct long vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i, ī [iː]		u, ū [uː]
Mid	e, ē [eː]	ǝ	o, ō [oː]
Open		a, ā [aː]

Phonotactics

Vōv's syllables have a (C)(C)V(C) structure, vowel sequences are allowed. Consonant clusters rarely occur root-initially, but several frequent prefixes only consist of a consonant and therefore result in most of Vōv's word-initial clusters when added to roots beginning with consonants.