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| Nasalized fricative || '''mh''' /β̃/ || '''nh''' /ð̃/ || || || '''ṇh''' /ʐ̃/ || || || '''ŋh''' /ɣ̃/ || | | Nasalized fricative || '''mh''' /β̃/ || '''nh''' /ð̃/ || || || '''ṇh''' /ʐ̃/ || || || '''ŋh''' /ɣ̃/ || | ||
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| Approximant || || || || '''l''' /l/ || '''r''' /ɻ/ || '''ḷ''' /ɭ/ || '''y''' / | | Approximant || || || || '''l''' /l/ || '''r''' /ɻ/ || '''ḷ''' /ɭ/ || '''y''' /j/ || || '''w''' /w/ | ||
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Revision as of 01:45, 20 February 2016
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | lateral | central | lateral | ||||||
Voiceless stop | p /p/ | t /t/ | ṭ /ʈ/ | c /k/ | |||||
Voiced stop | d /d/ | ||||||||
Voiceless fricative | ph /ɸ/ | th /θ/ | s /s/ | ł /ɬ~ɮ/ | ṣ /ʂ/ | ł̣ /ɬ̢~ɮ̢/ | ch /x/ | ||
Voiced fricative | ƀ /β/ | đ /ð/ | z /z/ | ẓ /ʐ/ | ǥ /ɣ/ | ||||
Affricate | ts /ts/ | ||||||||
Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ṇ /ɳ/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
Nasalized fricative | mh /β̃/ | nh /ð̃/ | ṇh /ʐ̃/ | ŋh /ɣ̃/ | |||||
Approximant | l /l/ | r /ɻ/ | ḷ /ɭ/ | y /j/ | w /w/ |
Vowels
Front | Near-front | Near-back | Back | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
High | í /i/ | ü /y/ | ũ /ɯ/ | ú /u/ | ||
Near-High | i /ɪ̈/ | u /ʊ̈/ | ||||
Mid | é /e/ | ö /ø/ | õ /ɤ/ | o /o/ | ||
Low-Mid | e /ɛ̈/ | o /ɔ̈/ | ||||
Low | á /æ/ | a /a/ | å /ɑ~ɒ/ |
Vowels may be long. This is indicated orthographically by doubling the vowel letter. Proto-C'mon-C'mere does not have diphthongs.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C). In addition, clusters of two consonants are allowed word-finally.
There are no restrictions on consonant clusters which means Proto-C'mon-C'mere allows some pretty weird consonant clusters, for example: mkéénhp (ferments into lactic acid)