High Kzholtag: Difference between revisions

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===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
====Intonation====
===Phonotactics===
Kzhol allows any sequence of phonemes with one exception: no more than four voiceless phones may be adjacent. Arbitrarily long strings of voiced consonants are allowed, and handled by syllabification.
Kzhol allows any sequence of phonemes with one exception: no more than four voiceless phones may be adjacent. Arbitrarily long strings of voiced consonants are allowed, and handled by syllabification.


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Voiced plosives become syllabic only when surrounded by other plosives, voiceless consonants, or clause boundaries. They take an epenthetic [ə̆] beforehands when syllabic.
Voiced plosives become syllabic only when surrounded by other plosives, voiceless consonants, or clause boundaries. They take an epenthetic [ə̆] beforehands when syllabic.
kdaag
kdaag
[kə̆.daag]
[kə̆.daːg]


''' Nasals: /m/, /n/, /ŋ/
''' Nasals: /m/, /n/, /ŋ/
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NOT *[naʑ.ˈʑʝ̞̍.ʌᵓːr]
NOT *[naʑ.ˈʑʝ̞̍.ʌᵓːr]


====Intonation====
===Phonotactics===
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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