[r]
becomes a schwa if preceding a consonant or at the end of a word.
/l/ -› [L] / [plosive|+voice]__
/l/ -› [l] / [plosive|-voice]__
Following a voiceless plosive
Double ‹l› is always velarized.
In New Common Lhuvan there are no rules for
‹h›
In many dialects of Lhuvan a word always ends with a continuant or
sonorant sound. Sounds that are
[p t k] /l/
becomes a fricative similar to Welsh 'll'.
Following a voiced plosive
[b d g] /l/
often becomes velarized. The probability of velarization is greater
following a sound that is already velar
[g].
/l/ is also velarized
following back vowels
[å: O o: u:].
Again this does not apply to all "speakers". This phenomenon is not
very common in most parts of the known lands.
[H] or
[j~.
Officially these are allophones in free distribution.
This does not apply to J]
[S]
and
[Z], which is often found instead of
[S] in stressed positions
or intonationally emphasized speech. In classical (older) Lhuvan
the sounds
[S],
[Z],
[C] and
[
do not exist.
They were all written 'x' pronounced like a coarticulation of
J]
[s] and
[C],
an alveolo-palatal fricative.
[-cont|-son]
but follow a
[+cont]
or
[+son]
are just silent («lind»
[lin] "music, melody").
Not following a continuant or sonorant consonant they are either
silent or become fricatives or affricates («hidd»
[Hið] ‹ *hid "mist").
