To do
Letío should be expressive. Letío should be flexible. Letío should express individuality, but also commonality. Letío should be equal. Letío should be beautiful. Letío should promote joy, but it should also be able to express darkness.
Letío has a relatively small consonant inventory on account of all its stops and fricatives being voiceless, although that does change in younger dialects.
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | t | k | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | θ | s | ʃ | ɕ | (x) |
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Liquid | ɾ, l | j |
Syllable initial stops are unaspirated. All consonants are permitted as onsets and as codas. No consonant clusters are permitted except for where a coda consonant is followed by an onset consonant.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɯ | |
| Mid | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
Generally SOV, but that’s only convention. Case markers mean that free word order is possible.
The language is usually head-final.
To enable free word order, nouns in Letío use case suffixes to indicate their roles in a sentence.
If the noun ends in a vowel, the suffix is -CV. If the noun ends in a consonant, the suffix is -VCV. The markers are as follows: