Phonotactics

Phonotactics are a set of clearly defined rules that govern how sounds interact with each other in a language, more specifically what sounds can be near other sounds and in what order they can be in. Of course in order to have rules about sounds you must have the sounds themselves first, the phonetics, but the phonotactics give the language a clearly individualized sound just as much so if not even more than the phonetics itself.

The structure of sadreil will be (c)(c)(v)(v)(v)(c). Broken down, this means that:

• You will never have more than 2 consonants in the beginning of a syllable
• You will never have more than 3 vowels next to eachother
• You will never have more than 3 vowels in a syllable
• You will never end a syllable with more than 1 consonant
• Whenever vowels are next to each other, they are slurred into a dipthong or tripthong
• You do not need to have the max allowed vowels or consonants per syllable, however you must always have at least 1 vowel per syllable
• You can think of sadreil's full options as ccvvvcccvvvcccvvvcccvvvccvvvccvvvcccvvvcccvvccc
  • Each sentence, word, or syllable is simply this pattern minus some options
    • Ex. la sadreil eivɪswa sja suwa idarapim eivɪswa. (The /sadreil/ language is my favorite language)
      • cv cvccvvc vvcvccv ccv cvcv vcvcvcvc vvcvccv

Note: /w/ and /j/ are both technically semivowels

Onset Sounds: Anything consonants! (this includes semivowels/glides, /w/ and /j/)

• j, w, t͡s, h, θ, ʃ, b, c, d, f, l, m, n, ʒ, p, r, s, t, v, z

Nucleus Sounds: All vowels and semivowels/glides!

• a, i, u, e, ə, ɔ, ɪ, j, w

Coda Sounds: SOME consonants! NO GLIDES/SEMIVOWELS (Any vowel can end a morpheme)

• t͡s, θ, d, l, m, n, ʒ, r, s, t, v, z