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Letters, vowels, accent
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==History== | ==History== | ||
== | ==Orthography and phonology== | ||
The alphabet phonetic: each letter corresponds to a certain sound, and each sound is represented by a single letter. This article uses the standard transcription of the native Lemizh alphabet. | The alphabet is phonetic: each letter corresponds to a certain sound, and each sound is represented by a single letter. This article uses the standard transcription of the native Lemizh alphabet. | ||
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{| class="wikitable" | |||
! colspan="29" | Letters of the Lemizh alphabet (Latin transcription) | |||
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| a || e || y || i || o || ö || u || ü || l || rh || r || ng || m || g || d || b || k || t || p || gh || zh || z || dh || w || x || sh || s || th || f | |||
|} | |||
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The direction of writing is left to right. | The direction of writing is left to right. | ||
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| trill || || || r <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || | | trill || || || r <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || || | ||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! !! front !! back | |||
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| close || i <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • ü <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Close front rounded vowel|y]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || y <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Close back unrounded vowel|ɯ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • u <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> | |||
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| open-mid || e <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • ö <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Open-mid front rounded vowel|œ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> || a <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Open-mid back unrounded vowel|ʌ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> • o <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> | |||
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Two consecutive different vowels are pronounced as a diphthong; two consecutive identical vowels as a long one. Single vowels are always short. | |||
Lemizh uses moræ for structuring words: a short syllable equals one mora, and a long syllable equals two. In Lemizh, every vowel is the centre of a mora; consequently, two consecutive vowels result in two moræ or one long syllable. | |||
===Accent=== | ===Accent=== | ||
Lemizh has got a two-way pitch-accent system, in that accented moræ are not only spoken louder (as in English), but also have either a lower or a higher pitch than the surrounding unaccented ones. The vowel at the centre of a low-pitch accented mora is transcribed with a grave accent: à è etc. The vowel at the centre of a high-pitch accented mora is transcribed with an acute accent: á é etc. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||