I agree, I will get rid of the uvular POAs entirely. I am going to maintain the palatal-velar underspecification. And I'm going to do some trimming as well. I also am going t get rid of the ejectives too, as much as I like them. Also, I am going to clip labial stops (I'm going to say the changed into the labial velars, the fricatives and the labial nasal by various phonological processes)DesEsseintes wrote:I like the idea of allophony between velars and palatals, because it's so widespread in NA languages. Blackfoot for instance has a palatal realisation of /k/ after front vowels which I think is neat. Alternatively, have pharyngeal frics instead of uvulars, since there is no contrast in the stops at those PoAs. That's only if you decide you want to merge some of those.
Nasals /m n ɲ/ m n ň
Voiceless Stops /t̪ t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʃ k kʷ ʔ/ t c tl č k kw '
Voiced Stops /d̪ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʒ g gʷ/ d dz dl j g gw
Voiceless Fricatives /f s ɬ ʃ x xʷ ħ h/ f s ł š x xw ḥ h
Voiced Fricatives /v ɮ ɣ ɣʷ ʕ/ v l ɣ ɣw ġ
Voiceless Sonorants /r̥ ʍ/ hr hw
Voiced Sonorants /r w/ r w
That brings me down to a much more reasonable 33 consonantal phonemes. Though not indicated explicity here anymore, the velars are often palatal in their POA depending on if there are front vowels before or after them.
But, with pharyngeals lying about I felt I should throw in some phonemic creaky voice along with length.
The vowels will be:
Short Modal Vowels /i e a o/ i e a o
Short Creaky Vowels /ḭ ḛ a̰ o̰/ į ę ą ǫ
Long Modal Vowels /iː eː aː oː/ í é á ó
Long Creaky Vowels /ḭː ḛː a̰ː o̰ː/ į́ ę́ ą́ ǫ́