Below is the consonant inventory of Cainye; the vowel inventory is a simple five-vowel system of /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, though there are dipthongs and significant vowel reduction.

Consonant Inventory
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m	n	ɲ (gn)	ŋ (ng)
Plosive	p b	t d		k g
Fricative		s	ɕ (x)
Affricate		t͡s (c) t͡sʰ (z)	t͡ɕ (j) t͡ɕʰ (q)
Approximant	w	l
Trill		r

Vowel reduction only happens for syllables with final nasals, and intial /l/. /a/, /e/, /o/, and /u/ are reduced to /ə/, while /i/ is reduced to /ɪ/.

Cainye is a tonal language.

1	2	3	4	5
˥	˧˥	˩˧	˥˧	˧
High	Mid-rising	Low-rising	High-falling	Mid
ā	á	â	à	a

Descriptions of the five tones (excluding the fifth, middle tone, which does not have a diacritic and is as you'd expect, basically not a tone):

High: at the highest, or near-highest, comfortable pitch in the speaker's vocal range. It is orthographically represented by a macron diacritic: ⟨ ◌̄ ⟩. It also may be represented by doubling the vowel, or first vowel in a dipthong, like so: yīng / yiing.

Mid-Rising: starting at the mid-tone, or middle, otherwise normal speaking pitch, and subseuently rising to the high pitch. It is orthographically represented by an acute diacritic: ⟨ ◌́ ⟩

Low-rising: starting at lowest, or near-lowest, comfortable pitch in the speaker's vocal range, then rising to the mid-tone. It is orthographically represented by a circumflex diacritic: ⟨ ◌̂ ⟩

High-falling: or just the "falling tone", starts at the high tone, then falls to the mid-tone. It is orthographically represented by a grave diacritic: ⟨ ◌̀ ⟩