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Primary stress falls within the root. Open syllables are light, closed syllables are heavy. Syllable onset clusters do not close the preceding syllable. If the first syllable of a root is heavy then the primary stress falls there otherwise it falls upon the second syllable of the root. | |||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
Revision as of 02:58, 16 February 2017
Introduction
Thulean (endonym: Migkatsi) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule (endonym: Telku) an island in the North Atlantic, west of Scotland and north of Ireland. The Selhar are a nation of European pygmies noted for their androgyny and their distinctive striped epidermes. Thulean has approximately 30 million native speakers.
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Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
NASAL: /m, n, N/
PLOSIVE: /p, t, k/
FRICATIVE: /s, K, x/
LIQUID: /r, l/
APPROXIMANT: /j, M\, w/
Vowels
HIGH: /i, u/
LOW: /E, A/
Prosody
Stress
Primary stress falls within the root. Open syllables are light, closed syllables are heavy. Syllable onset clusters do not close the preceding syllable. If the first syllable of a root is heavy then the primary stress falls there otherwise it falls upon the second syllable of the root.