Halfling

One of the most important aspects of Halfling phonology is that almost all consonants come in pairs, with one having a 'broad' pronunciation and the other a 'slender' one. Broad consonants are either velarized (that is, the back of the tongue is pulled back and slightly up while the consonant is being articulated) or simply velar.   Halfling exhibits a number of external sandhi effects, i.e. phonological changes across word boundaries, particularly in rapid speech. The most common type of sandhi in Halfling is assimilation, which means that a sound changes its pronunciation in order to become more similar to an adjacent sound.

The normal word order in a Halfling sentence is:

1. Preverbal particle
2. Verb
3. Subject
4. Direct object or predicate adjective
5. Indirect object
6. Location descriptor
7. Manner descriptor
8. Time descriptor