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Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m1	n̪1			ɲ	ŋ1
Stop	p  b	t̪ d̪				k  ɡ	q
Affricate			t͡ɬ	t͡ʃ  d͡ʒ		k͡ɬ
Fricative	f1  v1	θ1 (ð)1,2 s̪1 z̪1		ʃ1  ʒ1			χ	h
Trill	(ʙ)3		r̥4 (r)5
Tap			ɾ
Approximant	w		l		j

1: can occur syllabically

2: allophone of /θ/ after voiced plosives

3: in free variation with the cluster /bð/

4: can only occur syllabically and without a syllable coda

5: allophone of /ɾ/ word-initially

Vowels

All of Ravya's monophthongs and diphthongs can be nasalized following the letters n or m. There is no contrast between /Ṽ/ and /V/ before a nasal consonant. Phonetically, these vowels are either /ṼN/ or /VN/.

Vowel phonemes in Ravya

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i y1
Mid		ʌ	o
Open-mid	ɛ
Near-open	æ2

1: may be realized as /u/

2: may be lowered as /a/ or centralized as /ɐ/

Oral diphthongs

		Endpoint
		/j/	/w/
Start point	/æ~a/	æj	aw
	/ɛ/	ɛj	ɛw
	/i/		iw
	/o/	oj	ow1
	/ʌ/	ʌj	ʌw1
	/y/		yw1

1: Only as a result of l-vocalization; found in negative 3rd person singular neuter verbs and foreign borrowings

Orthography

Consonants IPA Ravya Example English approximation b b bab bike d̪ d düda door d͡ʒ j ja jeep f f fank fief ɡ g gutai girl h h hun hell j y yai yes k k ku kill, scam k͡ɬ kl kli clue, clean l l lala lion m m mu mile n̪ n nei Nile ɲ ny nya canyon ŋ n doing p p spike r r American English atom s s sign ʂ sz shore t t stow t͡ɕ ć, c(i) cheer t͡s c cats t͡ʂ cz child v w vile w ł way x ch, h Scottish loch xʲ ch(i), h(i) huge z z raisin ʑ ź, z(i) vision, azure ʐ ż, rz Pronouns Singular Plural 1st person exclusive ja ka inclusive ma 2nd person ta ca 3rd person neuter la ða masculine pejorative pa feminine pejorative nya non-binary tla 4th person ya ša Soliloquy ha/xa Ravya Swadesh List No. English gloss Ravya gloss 1. I ja 2. you (sg., pl.) ta (sg.), ca (pl.) 3. we (incl., excl.) ma (incl.), ka (excl.) 4. this ein 5. that ein 6. what? vet 7. who? beð 8. not nei 9. all kita 10. many wit 11. one wa 12. two ðon 13. big ki 14. long tlo 15. small mi 16. woman no 17. man mu 18. person, folk kye 19. fish pšeix 20. bird az 21. dog koge 22. louse ?? 23. tree abðo 24. seed ?? 25. leaf blaoz 26. root ?? 27. bark ?? 28. skin dzeim 29. flesh, meat laxne 30. blood dükl 31. bone os 32. egg tox 33. grease, rendered fat ?? 34. horn ?? 35. tail dm 36. feather, pinion ?? 37. hair (of head) kwad 38. head qebza 39. ear kšo, güšyo 40. eye ceiš 41. nose faktayo 42. mouth boga 43. tooth tinð 44. tongue liqwa 45. (finger)(toe)nail ?? 46. foot qad 47. knee roj 48. hand mew 49. belly, stomach ?? 50. neck klom 51. breast bui, mamei 52. heart qwað 53. liver ejgat 54. to drink bai 55. to eat kot 56. to bite manti 57. to see me 58. to hear güš 59. to know uk 60. to sleep lon 61. to die fas 62. to kill, slay ðok 63. to swim para 64. to fly laot 65. to walk yeit 66. to come se 67. to lie, lying ?? 68. to sit, sitting, seated vews 69. to stand, standing pntso 70. to give pit 71. to say bam 72. sun muðek 73. moon lona 74. star ek 75. water paka 76. rain ?? 77. stone, rock sng, kwen 78. sand ?? 79. earth, dirt, soil xak 80. cloud wis 81. smoke füm 82. fire face 83. ashes klef 84. to burn voic, ckaivoic 85. path, road vya, uð 86. mountain minða 87. red him 88. green nažb 89. yellow ye 90. white bža 91. black zyak 92. night xon 93. hot kaon 94. cold maon 95. to get full yesom ckaibum 96. good zü, qapo 97. new von 98. round (like a ball) ?? 99. dry maohavi 100. name sme Experimental Consonant Chart Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal plain plain lab. pal. plain lab. pal. plain lab. pal. sib. lat. lab. pal. plain lab. pal. lat. plain lab. pal. Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p pʷ pʲ t tʷ tʲ t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʷ t͡ʃʲ k kʷ kʲ kʟ̝̊ q qʷ voiced b bʷ bʲ d dʷ dʲ d͡z d͡ʒ d͡ʒʷ d͡ʒʲ ɡ ɡʷ ɡʲ Fricative voiceless f fʷ fʲ θ θʷ θʲ s sʷ sʲ ʃ ʃʷ ʃʲ χ χʷ χʲ h voiced v vʷ vʲ z zʷ zʲ ʒ ʒʷ ʒʲ Nasal m mʲ n ɲ Approximant l j w Trill r̥ Tap ɾ