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==Phonology== | |||
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===Orthography=== | |||
There are 3 main orthographies used by Neskara: Georgian, Cyrillic, and Latin. The Georgian script is the most commonly used script to transcribe Nesekara. | |||
Cyrillic || a A п П т Т к К e E ф Ф с С s S | |||
Georgian || ე პ ტ კ ე ვ ზ ს | |||
Latin || A a p P t T k K e E f F s S z Z | |||
IPA || [a] [p] [t] [k] [ɛ] [f] [s̺] [s̻] | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
/m/ <m, м, მ> /n/ <n, н, ნ> | |||
/p/ <p, п, პ> /t/ <t, т, ტ> /k/ <k, к, კ> | |||
/s̺/ <s, с, ზ> /s̻/ <z, s, ს> /ʃ/ <x, ш, შ> | |||
/f/ <f, ф, ვ> /θ/ <d, х, ხ> | |||
/w/ <w, в, ფ> /l/ <l, л, ლ> /j/ <y, ь, ღ> | |||
/ɾ/ <r, р, რ> | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
There are 5 vowels in Nesekara. Due to aerial features by Georgian, the /e/ and /o/ have drifted to /ɛ/ and /ɔ̝/ respectively. | |||
/i/ <i, и, ი> | |||
/u/ <u, у, უ> | |||
/ɛ/ <e, e, ე> | |||
/ɔ̝/ <o, o, ო> | |||
/æ/ <a, a, ა> | |||
Length is not contrastive. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
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Stress almost universally occurs on the last syllable. Stress is usually not contrastive, except for the words ''Xeke'' [ʃeˈ.ke] (car) and ''Xeke'' ['ʃe.ke] ''Check''. | |||
====Accent==== | |||
Intonation occurs via ''pitch-promenance'', i.e the pitch of the stressed syllable is different than the syllables surrounding it. The stressed syllable is always somewhat higher than nonstressed syllables. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
The syllable structure of Nesekara is always CV; any consonant is permitted to start a syllable. However, the sonority hierarchy is ''usually'' followed when constructing a word. | |||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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