Consonants
The complete alphabet's available here.
Consonant chart Labial Dental/Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Uvelar/Glottal Nasal /m/
(М m)/n/
(Н n)/ŋ/
(Њ ng)Plosive /p/
(П p)/b/
(Б b)/t/
(Т t)/d/
(Δ d)/k/
(К k)/g/
(Г g)/q/
(Ь q)/ʔ/ Fricative /f/
(F f)/v/
(В v)/s/
(Ѕ s)/z/
(З/С c/z)/ʃ/
(Ҫ zj)/t͡ʃ/
(ТҪ tzj)/ʂ/
(Z sj)/ç/
(Ҍ qj)/x/
(Р x)/h/
(Ƕ h)Approximate /l/
(Л l)/ɭ/
(Љ ll)/ɹ/
(L r)/w/
(Ѡ w)
Delang consonants are either considered being soft or hard. The rules is that words ending on a consonant shouldn't end on a soft consonant.
Soft б
(b)δ
(d)к
(k)л
(l)м/н
(m/n)ł
(r)з/ѕ
(c/s)в
(v)ѡ
(w)z
(sj)Hard п
(p)т
(t)г
(g)ь
(q)љ
(ll)м/н
(m/n)р
(x)с
(z)ƒ
(f)ƕ
(h)ҫ
(zj)ҍ
(qj)њ
(ng)
Consonant rules
- Words ending on a consonant should end on a hard consonant
- The consonant c can only be used at the beginning of a word, and only as plural or followed by an e
- The consonant c becomes z within a word
- Words starting with s- has to be followed by a, au, eu, u, or another consonant, but never by e, i, o, or y
- Words starting with z- has to be followed by a, i, j, m, o, u, w, y, or x, but never au, e, eu, or any other consonant
- In the combination dh and wh, the h is silent (i.e. a heart - anqardh /anqaɹd/, the water - daqwh /daqw/)
- The letter q should not be followed by a u
- The digraph qj are only pronounced /ç/ if following i or if the first letters of a word.
Allophones
The most common allophones in Delang are the substitution of the hard sounds ь (q), љ (ll) and р (x) for their softer variants к (k), л (l) and ł (r). In some words, like ліберін (libexin), the substitution are so common that the softer sound has almost replaced the harder sound.
Less common are the substitution of ҫ (zj) for z (sj).
Other less noticed allophones includes aspiration consonants, nasalization and palatalization[1].
- ↑ Palatalization only occurs when a consonant is followed by a ј (j). In Latin script the digraphs sj and zj are never palatalized, the same goes for initial qj and iqj.
