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= Bantu Bants = | |||
== Convenient Consonant Mappings == | == Convenient Consonant Mappings == | ||
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== Cool Phonological Laws == | == Cool Phonological Laws == | ||
=== Both === | |||
* CV except for prenasalised consonants | |||
* Both are bitonic | |||
=== Bantu === | |||
* Prenasalised voiceless plosives are rarer than voiced | |||
* Prenasalised consonants can appear at the start of an utterance. | |||
=== Japonic === | === Japonic === | ||
''Sources include: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Japanese#Restrictions WP:Old Japanese#Restrictions]'' | ''Sources include: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Japanese#Restrictions WP:Old Japanese#Restrictions]'' | ||
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* "A bare vowel does not occur except for word-initially: vowel sequences were not permitted." (WP 2018) | * "A bare vowel does not occur except for word-initially: vowel sequences were not permitted." (WP 2018) | ||
* "Arisaka's Law states that -o2 is generally not found in the same morpheme as -a, -o1 or -u." (WP 2018) | * "Arisaka's Law states that -o2 is generally not found in the same morpheme as -a, -o1 or -u." (WP 2018) | ||
* | * Japanese vowel devoicing (especially for closed vowels /i/ and /u/) | ||
* Rendaku & Lyman's law, which prevents more than one voiced obstruent per morpheme (but not in the compound as a whole). <!-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku --> |
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