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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
{{PAGENAME}} has | {{PAGENAME}} has | ||
* | * 5 consonants: | ||
** rostral nasalized fricative: m | ** rostral nasalized fricative: m{{lowered}} (written ''b'') | ||
** voiced apico-palatal stop: d | ** voiced apico-palatal stop: d | ||
** voiceless apico-palatal stop: t | ** voiceless apico-palatal stop: t | ||
** voiceless lamino-palatal stop: c (written ''c'') | ** voiceless lamino-palatal stop: c (written ''c'') | ||
** voiced choanal stop: {{qeth}} (written ''q'') | |||
* 21 vowels: ''i ị e ẹ a ạ ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/); /ɔ o ʊ u/ are really their unrounded counterparts | * 21 vowels: ''i ị e ẹ a ạ ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/); /ɔ o ʊ u/ are really their unrounded counterparts | ||
* 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlone tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'') | * 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlone tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'') | ||
There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | ||
All four stops have | All four stops have continuant allophones (roughly [β ð̠~n θ̠ j {{ayin}}]) after vowels, unless they're geminated. | ||
=== Word structure === | === Word structure === | ||