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|pronunciation='ɾoge joɾ'zjani | |pronunciation='ɾoge joɾ'zjani | ||
|nation= | |nation= | ||
* Gridania | * Gridania (alongside Padjali) | ||
* Limsa Lominsa | * Limsa Lominsa (alongside Lominsan) | ||
* Ul'dah | * Ul'dah (alongside Ul'dahn) | ||
* Ishgard | * Ishgard (alongside Ishgardian) | ||
* Ala Mhigo | * Ala Mhigo (alongside Highlander Hyuran) | ||
* Many smaller factions | * Many smaller factions | ||
|speakers=~70 million (almost all bilingual) | |speakers=~70 million (almost all bilingual) | ||
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* /v/ is usually [ʋ]. | * /v/ is usually [ʋ]. | ||
* /f/ has an allophone /ʍ/ before labialized consonants and rounded vowels. | * /f/ has an allophone /ʍ/ before labialized consonants and rounded vowels. | ||
* /n/ assimilates to following coronal and dorsal consonants | * /n/ assimilates to following coronal and dorsal consonants. | ||
* Nasals, plosives, and /s/ can be geminated. | * Nasals, plosives, and /s/ can be geminated. | ||
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* C is any consonant (m, n, p, t, k, b, d, g, f, s, v, r) | * C is any consonant (m, n, p, t, k, b, d, g, f, s, v, r) | ||
* V is any vowel (a, e, i, o, u) | * V is any vowel (a, e, i, o, u) | ||
* L is any continuant other than /f | * L is any continuant other than /f/ (s, v, r, n, m); /m/, however, appears very rarely and only before non-labials. | ||
* (r) represents the optional rhotic /r/ that can appear after the first consonant. | * (r) represents the optional rhotic /r/ that can appear after the first consonant. | ||
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To mark a yes-or-no question, the particle ''ra'' is added to the end of the sentence. | To mark a yes-or-no question, the particle ''ra'' is added to the end of the sentence. | ||
* ''no kata su narnu'' "I can see" | * ''no kata su narnu.'' "I can see" | ||
* ''no kata su narnu ra'' "Can I see?" | * ''no kata su narnu ra?'' "Can I see?" | ||
Nouns are pluralized by adding -tV where V is the last vowel in the noun. | |||
* ''nerov'' "person" | |||
* ''nerovto'' "people" | |||
* ''indun'' "dream" | |||
* ''induntu'' "dreams" | |||
* ''rende'' "feeling" | |||
* ''rendete'' "feelings". | |||