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/ʌ/ is debated, as most speakers do not consider it part of their phonemic inventory. Only a few dialects acknowledge its presence (such as Standard East Rikane), and even in those, it is not frequently used in basic vocabulary. | /ʌ/ is debated, as most speakers do not consider it part of their phonemic inventory. Only a few dialects acknowledge its presence (such as Standard East Rikane), and even in those, it is not frequently used in basic vocabulary. | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Rikane has a quite simple consonant chart, composed of 13 consonants, with very few allophony rules, listed under the table | Rikane has a quite simple consonant chart, composed of 13 consonants, with very few allophony rules, listed under the table | ||
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Compare "aroni" /a.rɒ̂.ni/ - spider and "aroni" /a.rɒ̌.ni/ - skull | Compare "aroni" /a.rɒ̂.ni/ - spider and "aroni" /a.rɒ̌.ni/ - skull | ||
===Phonotactics=== | |||
The basic syllable shape of Rikane is (C)V(H), where H denotes nasals, semivowels and /ɹ/ | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Just like the phonology, the morphology is quite simple and minimal | Just like the phonology, the morphology is quite simple and minimal, but it has his few weird quirks | ||
===Nouns=== | |||
====Gender==== | |||
Nouns in Rikane can belong to one of 3 genders: | |||
* Spatial | |||
* Astral | |||
* Terral | |||
The gender of a noun modifies almost all of the marking of the sentence, as every word (except prepositions and adverbs) should be marked for gender (except in very informal speech, where those gender markings are often omitted) | |||
The rules to determine the gender of a noun are really simple : | |||
* The noun is an '''astral noun''' if its radical ends in a vowel or a semivowel | |||
* The noun is a '''terral noun''' if its radical ends in a plosive or the trill | |||
* The noun is a '''spatial noun''' if its radical ends in a nasal or a fricative | |||
====Cases==== | |||
Rikane has a really small amount of cases, and thus a quite large amount of case syncretism : | |||
; Direct | |||
: The direct case acts like a nominative, except it can act as an accusative if the verb is in the passive voice | |||
; Indirect | |||
: The indirect case is the complete opposite of the direct case : it acts like an accusative, except when the verb is in the passive voice | |||
; Oblique | |||
: The oblique case marks every noun which isn't in the Direct nor in the Indirect | |||
; Genitive | |||
: The genitive case is used to indicate the possessor of an object. It can be completed by a particle, to show if the possession is either alienable or inalienable | |||
====Numbers==== | |||
Rikane doesn't really have numbers, they are just denoted using numerals | |||