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| Only used in Northern Efenol and by a small amount of Central speakers who haven't merged | | Only used in Northern Efenol and by a small amount of Central speakers who haven't merged | ||
this phoneme with /l/. | this phoneme with /l/. | ||
The letters may also be read individually as /lx/; an apostrophe may be used to unambiguously break the digraph. | |||
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| /ʀ/ | | /ʀ/ | ||
| Not used in Northern Efenol. Some Central Efenol speakers merge /ʀ/ and /r/ into /r/. Those | | Not used in Northern Efenol. Some Central Efenol speakers merge /ʀ/ and /r/ into /r/. Those | ||
speakers may replace all instances of <rg> with <r> (if word-initial) or <rr> (otherwise). | speakers may replace all instances of <rg> with <r> (if word-initial) or <rr> (otherwise). | ||
The letters may also be read individually as /ɾx/; an apostrophe may be used to unambiguously break the digraph. | |||
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Northern-like orthographies have a more limited usage of interpuncts: they aren't used in Northern Efenol and they are only used in other dialects if the article triggers some kind of mutation on the initial syllable of a noun. Thus, in Eastern Efenol, the singular form of 'the hand', which features a lenition, is ''a·mhan'' but its plural form, 'the hands', which does not feature lenition, is 'a mein'. | Northern-like orthographies have a more limited usage of interpuncts: they aren't used in Northern Efenol and they are only used in other dialects if the article triggers some kind of mutation on the initial syllable of a noun. Thus, in Eastern Efenol, the singular form of 'the hand', which features a lenition, is ''a·mhan'' but its plural form, 'the hands', which does not feature lenition, is ''a mein''. | ||
In addition to being used to mark contractions, in Eastern Efenol apostrophes are also used to indicate epenthetic schwas as in ''kyr'n'' /ˈkyɾən/. | In addition to being used to mark contractions, in Eastern Efenol apostrophes are also used to indicate epenthetic schwas as in ''kyr'n'' /ˈkyɾən/. | ||
Optionally, an apostrophe may also be used to break instances where the letters <r> or <l> occur next to an <h> without forming the digraphs <rh> and <lh>. This would distinguish Central Efenol ''marh'' /maʀ/ ('lean, without fat') from ''mar'h'' /maɾx/ ('frame'). The sequence <rh> is unambiguously /ɾx/ in Northern Efenol (as it lacks the <rh> digraph) so it never requires a 'breaking' apostrophe. Similarly, word-final <rh> is unambiguously /ɾx/ in all dialects other than Central Efenol since they don not allow word-final /ʀ/. Similarly, breaking the <lh> digraph is only necessary in Northern Efenol as Central, North-Eastern and Eastern dialects lack the phoneme represented as <lh> sound. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||