so the word "enban" has been proposed as a nonbinary equivalent to man or woman. my question is, how is it pronounced? and how is the pronunciation of the plural form, "enben", distinct?
so as far as i can tell, the -an changing to -en when plural comes from both man/men and woman/women. the issue here is stress. the word is /mæn/, which feels easy and natural because it's only one syllable and thus stressed. that makes the plural, /men/, make much more sense. for the word /wʊmɪn/, we reduce the second vowel since the stress is on the first syllable. so, we modify the first vowel so the second can stay reduced: /wɪmɪn/.
so, for the word enban, my first instinct is to pronounce it /enbɪn/, to go along with the first syllable being stressed and second reduced that we see in woman. but, then, what vowel do we change to make enban into enben?