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* Clusters in the form /CjV/ and /CwV/ only occur in Chisene loans, and in those, /wʌ, ji, wu, jɨ, wɨ/ don't occur. | * Clusters in the form /CjV/ and /CwV/ only occur in Chisene loans, and in those, /wʌ, jʌ, ji, wu, jɨ, wɨ/ don't occur. | ||
* Since /ɨ/ and /i/ are in complementary distribution, some (Russian) linguists claim that they are the same phoneme, with /"jɨ"/ and /"wɨ"/ being [i] and [wi], however they come from different phonemes, and though /i/ is the only monophthong which palatalizes consonants, it also appears in native vocabulary, making it more of an monophthong. In this page we will consider /ɨ/ and /i/ separate phonemes | * Since /ɨ/ and /i/ are in complementary distribution, some (Russian) linguists claim that they are the same phoneme, with /"jɨ"/ and /"wɨ"/ being [i] and [wi], however they come from different phonemes, and though /i/ is the only monophthong which palatalizes consonants, it also appears in native vocabulary, making it more of an monophthong. In this page we will consider /ɨ/ and /i/ separate phonemes | ||