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===Stress===
{{PAGENAME}} has penultimate stress like Classical Nahuatl.


[[Category:Quihum languages|N]][[Category:Naquic languages|*]]
[[Category:Quihum languages|N]][[Category:Naquic languages|*]]

Revision as of 17:17, 11 January 2017

Phonology

Consonants

Tsimulh languages/Lexicon changes the voiced series of Proto-Quihum into the aspirated series and loses the velar-uvular distinction in dorsal stops (the latter is like Proto-Pfeunic).

Consonants
Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
central lateral plain labialized plain labialized
Nasal m n
Plosive tenuis p t k ʔ ʔʷ
breathy voiced (gʰ) gʷʰ
ejective kʷʼ
Fricative s ł ś
Affricate tenuis c ƛ
breathy voiced ʒʰ λʰ ǵʰ
ejective ƛʼ ḱʼ
Approximant l y w

Vowels

Tsimulh languages/Lexicon has five short and long monophthongs. There are no diphthongs.

Front Central Back
Close i ī u ū
Mid e ē o ō
Open a ā