Northeast Aeséni language

The Aeséni language is the language of the Aeséni people. It is an agglutinative language with an flexible word-order, although SVO is preferred.

Consonants

 * All consonants can be geminated.
 * With the exception of /ɣ/, all of the liquids are phonemes on their own. /ɣ/ on the other hand is merely an allophone of morpheme-final /k/ before a morpheme that begins with a vowel.
 * Morpheme-finally, the stops /p t c k/ soften to /w ɾ j ɣ/ if the following morpheme begins with a vowel. This only happens if the aforementioned consonant is not geminated.
 * The realization of the liquids /w l j ɣ/ vary between fricatives [β̝ ɮ ʝ ɣ] and approximants [β̞ l j ɰ], although they tend to lean towards approximant.
 * The single, ungeminated /ɾ/ varies between flap [ɾ] and trill [r], albeit the flap is preferred. The geminated /ɾː/ is always realized as a trilled [rː].

Vowels

 * All vowels also have long equivalents, as the language has vowel-length distinction.
 * The language has vowel harmony: aside from the neutral vowel /a aː/, a word may only have vowels of one of the three classes: front /e eː i iː/, central /ɵ ɵː ʉ ʉː/ or back /o oː u uː/.
 * The neutral vowel /a aː/ - which isn't affected by vowel harmony - has a variable articulation that depends on the surrounding consonants:
 * normally a unrounded central [ä äː]
 * before or after the consonants /ɲ c ɕ j/, it is an unrounded near-front [æ̈ æ̈ː]
 * before or after the consonants /ŋ k x ɣ/, it is a rounded near-back [ɒ̈ ɒ̈ː]