This is my old conlang Qizūr that is changed guite much. I considered going on with the old thread, and due to that the first post of it is identical to this one, but decide to make a new one, after all.
-Only 3 vowels now
-An ejective plosive series added
Yozir [ɥə'ʒɨ:r] (maybe Yozirian in an English way) is my old renewed PIE descendant lang. It is spoken by a people that calls itself Yure[ɥy:rə] ’the people’. (Based on the Indo-European root wīr- ’man’. It’s spoken somewhere between the Caspian Sea and the Lake Aral. I try to mix some altaic features in it. It is a satem language (c>s, ɟ>z, ɟʰ>j) but not closely related to the other satems ones. Its phonological system actually resembles the Semitic languages with its several infixes and ablaut changes in the word stems.
It is somewhat based on Glottalic theory, but it can be derived from the traditional reconstruction, too.
Yozur began to use the Latin alphabet during 19th century by influence an European trend. The earlier alphabet was based on the Arabic one, which was actually not a very bad system for Yozir.
Vowel inventory
There are only three vowel morphemes: closed; mid; open. So, length, roundedness and the place of articulation are not distinctive features. There are of course rules limiting these features but they are related to consonants instead.
closed:<i> [ɨ][ɯ:] <u>[y][ʉ]
mid: e[e][ɘ][ɤ] o[ø][ɵ][o]
closed: a[a][ä][ɑ] q[ɶ][ɶ̈][ɒ]
The unstresses vowels are somewhat more centralized, but I don't see necessary marking them with different IPA marks.
Consonant inventory
voiceless plosives: p[p], t[t][tʷ], c[c][cʷ], k[k][kʷ]
voiced plosives: b, d[d][dʷ], j[Ɉ][Ɉʷ], g[g][gʷ]
ejective plosives: p’[p’], t’[t'][tʷ’], c’[c’][cʷ’], k'[k’][kʷ’]
implosives: b'[ɓ], d'[ɗ][ɗʷ], j'[ʄ][ʄʷ], g'[ɠ][ɠʷ]
voiceless sibilant: s
voiced sibilant: z[z][ʒ]
nasals: m[m], n[n][nʷ],
liquids: r[r], l[l], ll[ʎ], h(a nasalized alveolar lateral), lh(a nasalized palatal lateral)
semivowels: y[j][ɥ], w[ɰ][w]
Consonants
As you can see, all the consonants except liquids and labials have a labialised pair. Before a vowel their difference is marked in the vowel (after a labialised consonant a "labial" vowel: u, o, q and after "non-labial" consonant the vowel i, e, a). Only "non-labials" are written after bilabial consonants. The vowels are pronounced rounded after a labialised consonant and unrounded after a not labialised consonant but labialisation is a feature of the consonant after all. If there is no consonant after a labialised vowel, <v> is written to indicate labialisation. /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ are understood to be the labialised pairs of /s/ and /z/, but the following vowel is pronounced unrounded.
Vowels
So, the preceding consonant orders the roundedness of the following vowel. Word-initial vowels are defaultedly unrounded but the last consonant of the preceding word, especially in the same phase, makes them rounded . After /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ the vowel is after all pronounced unrounded.
POA
The vowels are pronounced front beside a palatal consonant and back beside a velar consonant. If there are both a palatal and a velar or none of them beside a vowel, it is pronounced central.
Later I maybe find time to explain how the phonology has developed from PIE.