Tones
There are four phonemic tones:
High: //?o
Mid: tsh?a
Mid-falling: //?o
Low: tsh?a
Vowels
<a e i o u> = /a E i O u/
Vowels can be plain (s?o), nasalized (g?u~), breathy (g?hm), pharyngealized (q?_a), glottalized (t??i), or one of 39 combinations of those (like pharyngealized breathy nasalized: dza?_i~); however, only a, o, u can be pharyngealized.
Consonants
Enough of those wussy vowels: clicks!
There are five main clicks: (affricated) bilabial (ʘ), (unaffricated) palato-dental (ǂ), (aff.) lamino-dental (/), (aff.) apico-alveolar (//), (unaff.) apico-alveolar (!).
Where the insanity really comes from is the 16 possible secondary articulations, which can occur with any click (demonstrated on !):
Unaspirated voiceless velar stop: !??
Voiced: !g??
Voiced nasalized: !n??
Preglottalized and nasalized: ?!n?hn
Voiceless nasalized: !nh?_m
Voiceless uvular stop: !q?he
Prenasalized voiced uvular: N!G?_?
Aspirated uvular stop: !qh?a
Uvular fricative: !x??
Ejective uvular stop: !q??ma
Ejective uvular affricate: !kx??a
Delayed (glottal) aspiration: !h?a
Glottal stop: !???
Voiced and uvular fricative: g!x?n
Voiced aspirated: g!h??
Voiced and ejective uvular affricate: g!kx???
As for pulmonic consonants (even they're all screwed up):
Voiceless unaspirated stops/affricate: p [marginal phoneme], t (lamino-dental), ts (lamino-post-dental), k, q
Voiceless aspirated: ph [marginal], th, tsh, kh, qh
Voiced: b, d, dz, g, G (uvular; tends to be prenasalized), dy (palatalized d)
Voiced and aspirated: dth, dtsh
With uvular frication: tx, tsx
Voiced with uvular frication: dtx, dtsx
Ejectives: ts?, kx?, q? [marginal]
Voiced and ejective: dts?, gkx?
Ejective with (ejective) uvular affrication: t?kx?, ts?kx?
Voiced with ejective and uvular affrication: dt?kx?, dts?kx?
Fricatives: s, x (velar)
Nasals: m, n (apical), ? (palatal), ?m, ?n (glottalized)
Liquid: l (apical)
There's other stuff too, like on phonological constraints: the consonants ? and dy (and dialectically l) only occur intervocalically. Even more strangely, only 6 consonants can occur intervocalically at all: those plus m, n, and b, and m and n are the only ones that can occur finally!
...I foolishly wrote:Since I'm tired, I won't give lots of details.
I think that's enough. Feel free to ask questions (especially Eddy; I even have a bit of grammar information); there's 200 pages of this...
Edit: Apparently my beautiful Unicode doesn't want to work, so: an umlauted vowel is supposed be a macron, _ after a vowel should be a tilde below, ~ after a tilde above, ? should be the IPA symbol for /J/, the bilabial click is a bullseye, the palatoalveolar is a = with a | through it, and the "nh" in the voiceless nasalized click accompaniment should be "n + (ring below for voiceless)".