Esilien: Difference between revisions
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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Esilienskú consonants are largely identical to Icelandic, with the addition of /w/, which appears primarily in morphological suffixes such as -wye and -wyen. | |||
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|+ Consonant phones | |||
! !! [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]] !! [[w:Dental consonant|Dental/Alveolar]] !! [[w:Palatal consonant|Palatal]] !! [[w:Velar consonant|Velar]] !! [[w:Glottal consonant|Glottal]] | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]] | |||
| m || n || || ŋ || | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Plosive consonant|Plosive]] | |||
| p b || t d || || k g || | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Fricative consonant|Fricative]] | |||
| f v || θ ð, s || || || h | |||
|- | |||
! [[w:Approximant consonant|Approximant]] | |||
| w || l r || j || || | |||
|} | |||
* | |||
*⟨þ⟩ = /θ/, ⟨ð⟩ = /ð/ | |||
*/w/ is marginal and primarily morphological (not lexical root phoneme) | |||
*/r/ is typically a trill or tap depending on dialect | |||
*Consonant clusters closely follow Icelandic patterns, with minor simplification in colloquial speech | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||