Mizlřvat is my third attempt at creating this language. I had previously called it Mizalcan, but this time decided to go with an in-language name, which means 'language of the Mountain' (the word mizal refers to a specific mountain with major cultural significance to the Mizlnèn, though at one point it was just a generic word for mountain).
Mizlřvat is spoken in Mizalc'à (Mountain-land), a land of high mountains and fertile valleys with a climate probably similar to California's, and has been written for at least 3,000 years. Its history is divided into three main periods: Old, Middle, and New Mizlřvat, and the general trend over this time has been for the language to move from heavily isolating to heavily agglutinating. I plan to focus on New Mizlřvat, but to reference older forms of the language in order to explain the form that the modern language takes.
I also tend to take little bits of lots of different languages and mash them together into what I hope is a cohesive whole when I'm conlanging, so while I have taken some initial inspiration from the Salishan languages, Mizlřvat will probably not be super heavily influenced by them, and I will likely combine that influence with all sorts of other stuff as well.
Phonology
Consonants
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[stops] p' p b t' t d k' k g kʷ' kʷ gʷ q' q ɢ qʷ' qʷ ɢʷ
[affricates] tʃ' tʃ dʒ
[fricatives] s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ xʷ ɣʷ χ ʁ χʷ ʁʷ h
[nasals] m n
[liquids] l r j w
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i ɪ u ʊ
e ɛ ə o ɔ
æ a
Romanization
Consonants
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p' p b t' t d c' c g c'v cv gv q' q q́ q'v qv q́v
tš' tš dž
s z š ž x ŕ xv ŕv x̌ ř x̌v řv h
m n
l r y w
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[short]
i ì u ù
e è à o ò
ä a
[long]
í î ú û
é ê â ó ô
a̋ á
Well, there's some basics. I will probably talk about stress and how it interacts with roots and suffixes next.