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** voiceless choanal stop: {{qeth}} (written ''q'') | ** voiceless choanal stop: {{qeth}} (written ''q'') | ||
* 21 vowels: ''i ị e ẹ a ạ ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/); /ɔ o ʊ u/ are really their unrounded counterparts | * 21 vowels: ''i ị e ẹ a ạ ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/); /ɔ o ʊ u/ are really their unrounded counterparts | ||
*diphthongs i:a u:a | *diphthongs ''ia ua'' /i:a u:a/ | ||
* 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlone tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'') | * 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlone tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'') | ||
There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | ||
** Short, long and overlong vowels are written ''ă a aa'' | |||
** Short, long and overlong consonants are written ''bh b bb'' | |||
All five stops have continuant allophones (roughly [β{{lowered}} {{zh}} θ̠ j {{ayin}}]) after vowels, unless they're geminated. | All five stops have continuant allophones (roughly [β{{lowered}} {{zh}} θ̠ j {{ayin}}]) after vowels, unless they're geminated. | ||