Chitol

[LinguoFranco]

Chitol is language spoken by tribes of hunter-gatherers.

Its phonotactics is technically CVC, but the language prefers open syllables (CV). Most consonants can be geminated intervocally. /n ŋ l ʔ/ are the only consonants that can occur as a word final coda.

/m n ŋ/
/p t t͡s~t͡ʃ k ʔ/
/s h/
/l w/

The stops become voiced intervocally.

/i ɨ u/
/e o/
/a/

Vowels are nasalized when adjacent to a nasal consonant. All other vowels in the word harmonize with it. The harmony is blocked by any consonant that isn't a nasal, /l/ or /w/.

The main stress is fixed on the antepenult. There is also secondary stress, as the second syllable of each foot is also stressed.

I don't have much worked out yet for the grammar and morphology, but I plan for it to be heavily head-marking.

Chitol has a VSO word order, though a sentence can alternate to VOS when the speaker wants to emphasize the object, or as a method of topicalization.

[Creyeditor]

Nice use of nasal harmony Could you give some examples?
I have some questions left: does harmony apply in both directions? How does it interact with affixation or compounding? Are there exceptions? What about loanwords? Do /w/ and /l/ also nasalize or are they transparent? Does it ever apply across word boundaries? Can nasal harmony start over if there are nasals on both sides of a blocking consonant?
Feel free to answer any subset if these

[Omzinesý]

/n ŋ l ʔ/ are the only consonants that can occur as a word final coda.

What about word-internal codas?

[LinguoFranco]

/n ŋ l ʔ/ are the only consonants that can occur as a word final coda.

What about word-internal codas?

All of them, except for the glottal stop, can be word-internal codas.

[Omzinesý]

How are Chitol words?