Strban language

The Strban language is the dominant language of the Kingdom of Strba, therefore the mother language of the majority of Azisiri people.

Consonants

 * /f/ is a marginal phoneme, appearing mostly in loanwords. Other than that, [f] also appears as the allophone of /v/ word-finally and before voiceless consonants.
 * /v/ has can be either a fricative [v] or an approximant [ʋ], but it's usually somewhere in between the two, a weak fricative. It has several allophones:
 * A lot of speakers pronounce /vu/ as [wu]. Some speakers always pronounce /v/ as [w] word-initially, except before front vowels.
 * /kv gv xv rv/ coalesce into [kʷ gʷ xʷ ɹʷ]
 * Many speakers pronounce /v/ as [ʋ] or [w] after /ɫ/, /j/ and /ʎ/
 * /v/ is devoiced to [f] word-finally and before voiceless consonants.
 * [ɣ] only appears as the allophone of /x/ before voiced stops and fricatives. A lot of speakers elide it completely (usually with compensatory lengthening), pronouncing /pɔxdi/ as [pɔːdi] or [pɔdi] instead of [pɔɣdi].
 * A minority of speakers speakers may pronounce the intervocalic clusters /xr xɫ xʎ/ as [ɣr ɣɫ ɣʎ] or elide /x/ before these consonants, meaning that /axri/ may be pronounced as [aɣri], [aːri] or just [ari] instead of the usual [axri].
 * /n/ becomes [ŋ] before /k g x/. /ŋ/ as a separate phoneme is marginal and occours only word-initially. Many speakers elide this word-initial /ŋ/ altogether.
 * Several speakers pronounce word-initial /g/ as [ŋ]
 * /n/, /r/, /ɫ/ and /ʎ/ may be syllabic
 * /r/ is usually realized as a trilled [r], but may be sometimes a flapped [ɾ], especially when not syllabic
 * /rv/ is pronounced as [ɹʷ]

Vowels

 * /ɛː ɔː/ may be raised to [eː oː] by a minority of speakers
 * /ɔ/ may be slightly raised to [o̞]
 * Short /ɛ/ may be lowered to [æ] or raised to [e̞] by a minority of speakers
 * Lowering /ɛ ɛː/ to [æ æː] after /r ɫ/ is nearly universal
 * Raising /ɛ ɛː/ to [e eː] after /j ʎ ɲ/ is nearly universal