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The short high vowels and ''a'' are mid-centralized: '''a i u y''' are pronounced [ɐ ɪ ʊ ʏ̜̈]. | The short high vowels and ''a'' are mid-centralized: '''a i u y''' are pronounced [ɐ ɪ ʊ ʏ̜̈]. | ||
The following are the diphthongs, all falling: '''ai au ei ie | The following are the diphthongs, all falling: '''ai au ei ie uo''' /ai au ei ie~ia uo~ua/. All diphthongs are bimoraic. | ||
===Pitch accent=== | ===Pitch accent=== | ||
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====Tonal patterns of nominals==== | ====Tonal patterns of nominals==== | ||
Every noun falls under one of four tonal paradigms. | Every noun falls under one of four tonal paradigms. | ||
#'' | #''cǔorryl'' ('sitting'): The most common paradigm, the downstep remains stationary, except as required by downstep rules or in the presence of the downstep-attracting absolute possession suffixes. | ||
#'' | #''sŧǐelaryl'' ('shunning/evading'): The downstep is never on the suffix. | ||
#'' | #''tháceryl'' ('standing'): Every suffix, except for conjunct possessive suffixes, bear the downstep. | ||
#'' | #''gāħmiryl'' ('skipping/tumbling'): The downstep is one mora before the boundary of the suffix in the base form, and moves to the desinence upon inflection by a definite suffix. | ||
====Irregular nouns==== | ====Irregular nouns==== |
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