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# = A single syllable may contain multiple adjacent nasals, fricatives, or plosives, as long as two of the same phoneme (disregarding voicedness) don’t occur adjacently within the syllable. | # = A single syllable may contain multiple adjacent nasals, fricatives, or plosives, as long as two of the same phoneme (disregarding voicedness) don’t occur adjacently within the syllable. | ||
# = | # = <r> placed directly after a nasal, fricative, or plosive when in the syllable coda will make those two consonants behave as a single unit together, but <r> cannot be followed by another consonant in that syllable. | ||
# = Fricatives and stops are both regarded as if having the same priority ranking and therefore may be placed interchangeably in a cluster. | # = Fricatives and stops are both regarded as if having the same priority ranking, and therefore may be placed interchangeably in a cluster. | ||
Additionally, there is a 4th phonotactic rule: | Additionally, there is a 4th phonotactic rule: | ||
* Individual morphemes (word stems) must ''always'' end in a consonant. Thus when a morpheme ends in a front vowel in its original language, it converts to <j>, while a final back vowel becomes <h>. | * Individual morphemes (word stems) must ''always'' end in a consonant. Thus when a morpheme ends in a front vowel in its original language, it converts to <j>, while a final back vowel becomes <h>. | ||
*: This rule exists to more clearly mark the start of an inflection in a word, since all inflections begin with a vowel. | *: This rule exists to more clearly mark the start of an inflection in a word, since all inflections begin with a vowel or semivowel. | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||