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Vowels:
i ɯ u
e ɤ o
ɛ ʌ ɔ
a
Using <a> /a/ as an example:
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Tone on Short Vowels:
a˥ a˥˩ a˨˥ a˩
Tones for Long Vowels:
a˥ a˥˩ a˨˥ a˩ a˩˧˩ a˥˧˥ a˧˥˦
Despite the intense tonal system I would still like words to be longer than monosyllables. Ideally, most words would be either mono- or bisyllabic with an extremely small few being trisyllabic.
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Consonants:
m n̪ ɲ ŋ
p t̪ ts tɬ tʃ k q
s ɬ ʃ x χ h
ꞵ ɣ
r l j
Making an orthography for this would be nightmarish though. I'd probably end up using the IPA characters for much of (if not all of) the vowel system.
Maximum syllables are (C)V(:)(C), except codas cannot have /ꞵ ɣ/ in them