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However, it differs from English in many other ways. Syntactically, it prefers SVO, but is less strict than English, often allowing words to be fronted as topics, or elided if they are obvious from context. This does not create ambiguities, since verbs have hierarchical person marking. The language also marks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_possession alienable and inalienable possession]. Phonologically, the language uses secondary articulation to contrast a very large number of consonant phonemes, however the phonotactics are extremely restrictive, and most dialects have a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_vowel_system Vertical Vowel System] (the ones that do not still preserve an older system with vowel harmony). | However, it differs from English in many other ways. Syntactically, it prefers SVO, but is less strict than English, often allowing words to be fronted as topics, or elided if they are obvious from context. This does not create ambiguities, since verbs have hierarchical person marking. The language also marks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_possession alienable and inalienable possession]. Phonologically, the language uses secondary articulation to contrast a very large number of consonant phonemes, however the phonotactics are extremely restrictive, and most dialects have a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_vowel_system Vertical Vowel System] (the ones that do not still preserve an older system with vowel harmony). | ||
Even though the dialects are easily mutually intelligible, there is no one name for the dialect cluster. The most commonly used one is /ˈʀɨ̤ŋːasɨ̤/ [ˈʁɤ̤ŋːa̤sɨ]. However, some communities strongly prefer to refer to it as /kɨˈʎə̰ɴbə/ [kiˈʎḛɴbə]. A third, neutral term is /ʔaʔɨʈaˈʔɨ̤ːwamaɴɻahɨ/ [ʔaʔɤʈɑˈʔṳːwa̤mɑ̤ɳɻɑ̤hɨ], however this has an extremely stilted, formal flavour and is rarely used. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||