Charnek Kobold language

The Charnek Kobold language is a variety of the Kobold language that is spoken by the Goblin population of the Free City of Charnek. What sets it apart from other varieties of the Kobold languages (which are fairly uniform) is the heavy influence of both Gabyrian and Lizardman.

Differences from normal Kobold

 * A high number of loanwords from the Gabyrian language and the Charnek Lizardman language.
 * The absence of Orcish loanwords present in other varieties of the Kobold.
 * A number of phonemes only present in loanwords: -

Phonology
The Charnek Kobold language has 19 native consonant phonemes, and 10 consonants that only appear in loanwords:.

Consonants

 * The consonants in red - - appear only in loanwords, but are nativized enough that all speakers of the language will pronounce them correctly in loanwords that contain them.
 * The consonants in blue - - appear only in loanwords, and tend to be mispronounced by monolingual speakers of the language.
 * appears only in loanwords from Gabyrian, and is usually mispronounced as, or.
 * The alveolar sibilant affricates appear only in loanwords from Gabyrian and Lizardman, and they tend to be deaffricated to  word-initially, dissimilated to stop+fricative clusters  word-medially. The deaffricated word-initial  is often devoiced.
 * The retroflex sibilants appear only in loanwords from Lizardman, and are usually replaced by their palatal equivalents, which are in fact native to Kobold.
 * The language's two rhotics are a (post)alveolar flap and a uvular fricative . They are in complementary distribution in native vocabulary, but are fully phonemic from each other in loanwords.
 * In native vocabulary, can only appear word-initially and between two vowels,  can appear in any position except word-initially.
 * In loanwords of Lizardman origin, correspond to the Lizardman . The earlier can appear in all positions (including word-initially), while the latter only appears syllable-initially.
 * In loanwords of Gabyrian origin, corresponds to the Gabyrian geminated  and word-initial, while  corresponds to  in every other position.

Vowels
The vowel system of Charnek Kobold is identical to that of regular Kobold.

In loanwords from Lizardman, the front rounded vowels are replaced by iotated back vowels, the nasal vowels  are replaced by vowel+ clusters  and the central vowels  are fronted to. The syllabic consonants are replaced by  respectively. The diphthongs are borrowed as.

In Gabyrian loanwords, the short central vowels are merged as, while the long  is fronted to. The long close and open vowels are simply stripped of their length and borrowed as. The long mid vowels are respectively borrowed as.