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> viti = Fiji
> madjarorsag = Hungary
> qomun = Macau
> tsjaq'dzjaq = Yangze
> dunav = Danube

Fine, except for the Yangzi: if you really want a language without
(phonemic) shibilants, it'd IMHO be better to look at real examples (like
Greek -- /sOkO'laDa/ "chocolate"... or your own <viti>!) than to introduce
sibilant-plus-/j/ which will be obvious to Dutchmen and maybe Swedes but a
formidable consonant cluster to most other people. I'm also not quite happy
about the word-initial /N/ of Macau. While globally quite common, Europeans
in general* have real trouble imagining that kind of phenomenon, and
Mandarin, too, lacks this feature.

* Maybe Albanian has it. I'm not sure.

Are there optional schwas or something in <madjarorsag>? (These particular
consonant clusters, however, certainly rank among the easier ones.)