Kobold language

The Kobold language is the most spoken language amongst the Goblin languages, and is also the only exant Goblin language that's considered relevant: the Koblin language is presumed extinct, while the Gaildaurn language is endangered, due to the fact that slavery highly accelerates the enroaching of Keldorni Etrandish on Gaildaurn. The Kobold language continues to thrive and be spoken in Brutang and Empire of Neressa, as well as amongst Goblin diasporas elsewhere (except in Keldorn). A specific variant of the Kobold language, Charnek Kobold is spoken in the Free City of Charnek.

The Kobold endonym ->  gave rise to the Middle Etrandish "cobold", being retained into current Etrandish  and the Etrancoasti "cobold".

Evolution from Proto-Goblin

 * The original became, while  remained untouched
 * The original diphthongs became.
 * coalesced into new labio-velar and palato-velar sounds . The palato-velar eventually evolved into
 * coalesced into.
 * Loanwords from Old Orcish introduced into the language
 * At one point, the voiceless stops became aspirated.
 * Unlike in Orcish, the voiced stops never lost their voicing, remaining fully voiced in all environments.

Phonology
The Kobold language has 20 native consonant phonemes, and two consonants that only appear in loanwords: and.

Consonants

 * and appear only in loanwords.
 * and are not phonemes on their own, but allophones of  before  and  respectively.
 * can appear in any positions, except word-initially.
 * could traditionally only appear word-initially and between two vowels, but influence from Orcish enabled it in other positions too.

Vowels
The Kobold language has 5 vowel phonemes and 6 dipthongs, no vowel length distintion, no gemination, no tones.

Monophthongs

 * are true mid