Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ1 | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m2 | n2 | ln | |||||||||||||||
| Tap or Flap | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | th | dh | s | z | sh | jh | gh | h3 | ||||||||
| Approximant | r4 | y | ||||||||||||||||
| Lat. approx. | l† | |||||||||||||||||
1 The glottal stop has its own letter when using the native script to write. The romanization shows a glottal stop by adding a grave accent to the following vowel.
2 Length is phonemic: m̤ /mː/, n̤ /nː/, l̤ /lː/,
3 Only allowed in initial position, or with a productive prefix in front of it.
4 Asha'ille's rhotic phoneme hasn't settled into one realization yet. ɾ and ʁ may very well be allophones of one another. In the Asha'ille dictionary, they are all represented as ɹ .
Other Symbols
Asha'ille has one double articulation, ml /m͜l/; and two affricatives, ch /ʧ/ and j /ʤ/.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| î | ||||||||||
| Close-mid | ae, ei | o | ||||||||
| Open-mid | e | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
Certain dialects also have the vowels /æ/ and /ʊ/.
Diphthongs
- ai
Foreign Sounds in Borrowed Words
When words or names borrowed into Asha'ille contain foreign sounds, they change into the nearest equivalent sound. Unallowed consonant clusters are simplified.
| Foreign | Native | Example |
|---|---|---|
| /æ/ | e /ɛ/ | Matt → Met |
| /w/ | b /b/ | Wade → Baed |
