Vandiino Language

Vandiino, also spelled Vandino, known politically as Vandino-Bakiwa, is a Uralic language of the Balto-Finnic branch native to the indigenous Vandiini and Bakiwa peoples of Vandistan. Although less than 1% of Vandistanis speak the language today (among them only a minority of Indigenous Vandis), Vandino is recognized as an official language nationwide, and all public services in Vandistan are required to accomodate the language.
=== Phonology ===
==== Vocalic Segments ====
Vandiino monophthongs show six vowel qualities that contrast in duration, thus 12 vowel phonemes in total. Vandiino like some Uralic languages, lack a central vowel. Vowel allophony is quite restricted. All back vowels are all rounded. Long and short vowels are also shown below, the letters inside 
 	Front	Back
Close	i/y* 	u
Mid 	e 	o
Open 	a 	
*y is used after a hard consonant, i after a soft one. 
Vandiino has 3 additional diphthongs, written as, 
Dipthong	IPA
ai 	[aɪ]
ei 	[eɪ]
au 	[aʊ]
notice how [ɪ] and [ʊ] are not used outside the diphthongs
==== Consonants ====
Vandiino has a consonant inventory of small to moderate size, where voicing is mostly not distinctive, and trills along with approximants are scarce. Consonants are as follows,
 	 	Labial	Labial	Coronal	Coronal	Dorsal	Dorsal	Glottal
 	 	hard 	soft 	hard 	soft 	hard 	soft 	hard
Nasal 	Nasal 	m 	mʲ 	n 	nʲ 	 	 	
Stop 	voiceless 	p 	pʲ 	t 	tʲ 	k 	c 	ʔ
Stop 	voiced 	b 	bʲ 	d 	dʲ 	g 	ɟ 	
Fricative 	voiceless 	f 	fʲ 	s 	ʂ 	x 	ç 	
Fricative 	voiced 	w 	v 	z 	ʐ 	 	 	
Affricate 	voiceless 	 	 	ts 	tʃ 	 	 	
Affricate 	voiced 	 	 	dz 	dʒ 	 	 	
Approximant	Approximant	 	 	l 	lʲ 	 	j 	
Tap 	Tap 	 	 	ɾ 	ɾʲ 	 	 	
=== Orthography ===
Vandiino orthography is the orthography used in writing the vandiino language, which is largely phonemic. However, it shows many instances of spellings that are historic or analogous to other spellings rather than phonemic. The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling once the spelling rules are known, but the opposite is not generally the case.
Vandiino alphabet
Capital	Lowercase	Name	Name (IPA)
A 	a 	aa 	/aː/
B 	b 	bee 	/beː/
C 	c 	cee 	/çeː/
D 	d 	dee 	/deː/
E 	e 	ee 	/eː/
F 	f 	if 	/if/
G 	g 	gee 	/geː/
H 	h 	haa 	/haː/
I 	i 	ii 	/iː/
J 	j 	jot 	/jot/
K 	k 	kee 	/keː/
L 	l 	el 	/el/
M 	m 	em 	/em/
N 	n 	en 	/en/
O 	o 	oo 	/oː/
P 	p 	pee 	/peː/
Q 	q 	quu 	/kuː/
R 	r 	ar 	/ar/
S 	s 	is 	/is/
T 	t 	tee 	/teː/
U 	u 	uu 	/uː/
V 	v 	vii 	/viː/
W 	w 	wee 	/veː/
X 	x 	ax 	/ax/
Y 	y 	yy 	/yː/
Z 	z 	zee 	/zeː/
*Only exists in foreign loanwords, and thus does not have a name.
===== Romanization: =====
Due to the fact that not every sound in Vandiino has a counterpart in the Vandiino alphabet, a system of romanization has been laid out to represent each individual sounds. This system represents the letters as they appear in the IPA with the diacritics replaced by their corresponding symbol next to it, example: pʲ becomes pj, tʲ becomes tj, and so on, same for its vowels. There are exceptions, which will be laid out in this table:
IPA	Romanized
ʂ 	sj
ʐ 	pj
tʃ 	tsj
dʒ 	dzj
ɾ 	r
ɾʲ 	rj
c 	kj
ɟ 	gj
ç 	xj
ʔ 	'
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