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While I don't consider it "alien" because it's built upon features found in real languages, Tarune's phonemic inventory is really weird in comparison with your typical European language:
No, I'm not forgetting about /m n/ and the likes - Tarune doesn't have phonemic nasal consonants at all. The associated sounds only surface allophonically, for voiced stops "sandwiched" between nasal vowels. Nasalisation is primarily a vowel contrast in the conlang.
Same deal with velars - you get some velar allophones for the palatal and uvular series, like /qi/ and /cu/ being realised as [ke] and [kʊ], but you don't really have a */k g x/ series.
Oh, I've never heard about this conlang. Is it yours?
Yup, it's mine. Sorry for not clarifying. It's a 10yo or so project, part of a rather large language family, but still incomplete.