Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20170501151956

I finally know what the Snow-Elves will speak. I will have them speaking what's basically Tuvan, but I've screwed the phonology a bit. The changes are:

1. ʋ is replaced with ɮ.

2. The creaky/low pitch is done away with. If a vowel had it, there are a number of ways the creakiness.

A. If the vowel is initial or following a voiced stop, it is given an extra-long length (giving the language 3 vowel lengths). This is actually a reference to proto-Turkic.

2. If it follows a semivowel (l, ɾ/r/ɹ), nasal (n, m, ŋ) or fricative (f, s etc), said semivowel, nasal or fricative will be gemminated. This is a reference to the Uralic languages.

3. If it follows a devoiced stop, said stop will be made ejective. This is a reference to several North-American languages.

As for the writing-system, I have decided on something rather like the vertical Mongolian script, but modified to be entirely phonetic, abugidic and to have a consistent graphic correspondence between consonants and their voiced equivalents. 