Akridian

Akridian (⠮⠒⠧⠉⠗⠭⠒, tr. nkxépči) is a group of similar languages often thought of as a dialect continuum, though with limited mutual intelligibility, spoken mostly by Akridians in the Arega Desert.
By their physiology, Akridians can make a wide variety of consonant sounds, but no pulmonic consonants; as such they are also unable to make proper vowel sounds, and the "vowel" sounds assigned to their speech are assigned as they sound to human ears. Because of this limitation, while they have a wide breadth of consonantal sounds, their vowel range is only in the close front range, and they cannot round; as such the only vowels present in Akridian speech are a high, mid, and low vowel that can take various qualities in free variation. Because their consonants are non-pulmonic, and many of them impossible to replicate with human or anthropoid physiology, general approximations of the closest "human" sound are given in IPA representation.
Akridian has three tones: high, mid and low. Tone is constant through the syllable and there is not rising or falling. Many sounds in Akridian are created by stridulation, and the speed of this stridulation can be modulated to produce the proper tone. In contrast to anthropoid tonal languages, tone in Akridian is generally absolute, and not relative, so anthropoid speakers of the language must be very careful to take note of their exact pitch when speaking.

Akridian

⠮⠒⠧⠉⠗⠭⠒
_(nkxépči)

Pronunciation: [ŋ̍k!épʼtɕʼi]
Ethnicity: Akridians
Language Family:
Language isolate

Consonants

Vowels