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| a || (ä)<ref>Substitution for /ʌ/ or /a/, mostly used by L2 speakers who are not familiar with native phonetics.</ref> || | | a || (ä)<ref>Substitution for /ʌ/ or /a/, mostly used by L2 speakers who are not familiar with native phonetics.</ref> || | ||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
Kaikiwan has two types of tones: '''rising''' and '''falling''', and they are only used on vowels. | |||
Kaikiwan intonation is technically phonemic, meaning semantics can change based on tone pronunciation alone, though in practice very few words distinguish between themselves solely on tone. A common example of this in the language itself would be the word for the islands of Hawai'i, ''húwui'', and the word for "salmon", ''hùwui''. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||