What happens if Ancient Greek, Latin, and Welsh are mashed together by someone
who doesn't know any of them? A big mess is what.
# Phonology
## Vowels
| | Front | Mid | Back |
|-----:|:-------------:|:-------------:|:-------------:|
| High | #(i) #/i, iː/ | | #(u) #/u, uː/ |
| Mid | #(e) #/ɛ, eː/ | #(ə) #/ə, ɘː/ | #(o) #/ɔ, oː/ |
| Low | #(a) #/aː/ | #(a) #/ä/ | |
* The allowed diphthongs #/ai̯ au̯ ei̯ eu̯ oi̯ ou̯ ui̯/. They are written as their
two component vowels.
* Length and stress are indicated [using diacritics]{#dia}:
* stressed short vowels with an acute accent (#(á));
* unstressed long vowels with a macron (#(ā));
* stressed long vowels with a circumflex (#(â)).
Diphthongs have the diacritic on the first letter. Stress isn't indicated
on monosyllabic words, unless inflections are added which cause the word to
become multisyllabic.
### Umlaut
At certain times, either the last vowel, or all vowels in some words, will
undergo *i*-umlaut, where they will move closer to #[i]. This process is
reflected in the spelling of affected forms. Vowels move one step along the
following graphs:
Forms which cause umlaut of the last vowel are marked with a †; forms causing
umlaut of the whole words are marked ‡. Only some words are affected by umlaut;
those which do are also marked with †.
### Stress
Stress is unpredictable and is indicated with diacritics (see [above](#dia)).
Monosyllabic words are unmarked for stress, but when inflections are added
which give them more than one syllable, those forms of the word *are* marked.
Most affixes don't affect the stress; those which do are pointed out. Compound
words have the primary stress on the last root.
## Consonants
| | Labial | Coronal | Dorsal |
|----------:|:-------------:|:-------------:|:-------------:|
| Plosive | #(p b) #/p b/ | #(t d) #/t d/ | #(k g) #/k ɡ/ |
| Fricative | #(f) #/f/ | #(s) #/s/ | #(h) #/χ/ |
| Nasal | #(m) #/m/ | #(n) #/n/ | |
| Lateral | | #(l) #/l/ | |
| Flap | | #(r) #/ɾ/ | |
| Semivowel | #(w) #/w/ | | #(y) #/j/ |
### Allophones