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+# Phonology
+
+## Consonants
+
+|           | labial | alveolar  | palatal | velar/uvular | glottal |
+|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|--------------|---------|
+| nasal     | m      | n         | ɲ (nh)  | ŋ (ng)       |         |
+| plosive   | p b    | t d       | c       | k g          |         |
+| fricative | f v    | s z       |         | x (kh)       | h       |
+| approx.   |   w    |           |    j    |              |         |
+| liquid    |        | l         |         |              |         |
+
+- Consonants are often labialized before /w/ and palatalized before /j/
+- /nj/ is also sometimes realized as [ɲ] or [ɲj]
+- /j/ is realized as [i] after /h/ and /c/
+- Likewise, /w/ is realized as [u] after /h/, and other labial consonants
+
+## Vowels
+
+|           | front  | central | back  |
+|-----------|--------|---------|-------|
+| close     | i y    |         | u     |
+| close-mid | e      | ə (e)   | o     |
+| open-mid  | ɛ̃ (e)  |         | ɔ̃ (o) |
+| open      |        | a       |       |
+
+- /e/ is realized as [ɛ̃] when nasalized and [ə] when preceded by /j/
+- /o/ is realized as [ɔ̃] when nasalized
+
+## Tones
+
+There are five tones:
+
+- mid level [33]: a
+- low [21]: à
+- falling [45] or [41]: â
+- high [44]: á
+- rising [324]: ǎ
+
+## Phonotactics
+
+All syllables in DianZì follows C(W)V(N)T pattern, where:
+
+- C is a consonant
+- W is either /w/ or /j/ or /y/
+- V is a vowel
+- N is the vowel nasalization marker
+- T is a tone
+
+/w/ cannot precedes /u/ and /j/ not /i/
+
+There are thus 3910 possible syllables.
+
+## Romanization
+
+DjanZì is often written in CamelCase to disambiguate cases like /ng/ vs /ŋ/.
+Hyphenation is also often used as DjanZì words are often not too long, in which
+case capitalization is only mandatory for proper noun component.
+
+J and W can be romanized as I and U for aesthetics, as there is no ambiguity
+there. Nasalization is often denoted with N, but sometimes also with NG.
+
+Following spellings are thus all valid for *DjanZì*:
+
+- DjanZì
+- djan-Zì
+- DiangZì
+- djang Zì