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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
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|quote=The vernacular of the Rttirrian people is a language like no other; aside from the smaller languages of the mountain-peoples and forest-peoples. It is spoken variously with curls of the tongue like the languages of the South Asian subcontinent and of Australia; and with glottalized puffs of air like the Navaho language and the families of the Caucasus Mountains; and a front-rounded vowel thieved from the Scandinavians... I am optimistic that, after proper study, the Rttirrian tongue may one day show an affinity with one of the many ill-understood language families of northern Australia or New Guinea... | |||
|source=Obediah Taylor, author of the first grammar of Rttirri, ''The Rttirrian Language'' (1895) | |||
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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Although the specific realizations vary, the dialects of Rttirri generally distinguish the same consonant phonemes. | Although the specific realizations vary, the dialects of Rttirri generally distinguish the same consonant phonemes. | ||