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| '''mb''' ᵐb || '''nd''' ⁿd || || '''ŋg''' ᵑg || | | '''mb''' ᵐb || '''nd''' ⁿd || || '''ŋg''' ᵑg || | ||
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!rowspan=" | !rowspan="3"|Fricative | ||
!<small>plain</small> | !<small>plain</small> | ||
| '''f''' f || '''s''' s || || || '''h''' h | | '''f''' f || '''s''' s || || || '''h''' h | ||
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!<small>prenasalized</small> | !<small>prenasalized</small> | ||
| '''mhf''' mʰf || '''nts''' nt͡s || || || | | '''mhf''' mʰf || '''nts''' nt͡s || || || | ||
!rowspan="2"| Liquid | !rowspan="2"| Liquid | ||
!<small>plain</small> | !<small>plain</small> | ||
Revision as of 00:51, 9 January 2017
Phonology
Based on the idea of "literally-read Irish".
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | plain | m m | n n | ŋ ŋ | ||||||||
| geminate | nn nː | |||||||||||
| aspirated | mh mʰ | |||||||||||
| Stop | tenuis | p p | t t | c k | ||||||||
| aspirated | ph pʰ | th tʰ | ch kʰ | |||||||||
| prenasalized | bp ᵐp | dt ⁿt | gc ᵑk | |||||||||
| voiced | b b | d d | g g | |||||||||
| breathy voiced | bh bʱ | dh dʱ | gh gʱ | |||||||||
| voiced prenasalized | mb ᵐb | nd ⁿd | ŋg ᵑg | |||||||||
| Fricative | plain | f f | s s | h h | ||||||||
| aspirated | fh fʰ | sh sʰ | ||||||||||
| prenasalized | mhf mʰf | nts nt͡s | Liquid | plain | l l | r r̠ | ||||||
| geminate | ll lː | rr r̠ː | ||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i /i/ | í /iː/ | u /u/ | ú /uː/ | ||
| Mid | e /e/ | é /eː/ | o /o/ | ó /oː/ | ||
| Open | a /a/ | á /aː/ | ||||
Diphthongs: Diphthongs without the fada (acute accent) are short, diphthongs with the fada are long. Otherwise they're mostly read as written.
a in an unstressed syllable becomes e if the previous vowel ends in an /i/.