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-|colspan=3| '''''Stops'''''
+! Grapheme !! IPA Symbol !! Description and Notes
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-| '''b''' || /b/ || as in ‘bee’
+| k || [k] || Voiceless velar plosive
 |-
-| '''p''' || /p/ || as in ‘pea’
+| p || [p] || Voiceless bilabial plosive
 |-
-| '''d''' || /d/ || as in ‘deed’
+| t || [t] || Voiceless dental plosive
 |-
-| '''t''' || /t/ || as in ‘tea’
+| n || [n] || (Voiced) alveolar nasal. Can be pronounced as [ŋ] before k and g.
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-| '''g''' || /g/ || as in ‘get’
+| m || [m] || (Voiced) bilabial nasal
 |-
-| '''k''' || /k/ || as in ‘key’
+| s || [s] || Voiceless alveolar fricative
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-|colspan=3| '''''Fricatives'''''
+| j || [j] || Palatal approximant
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-| '''s''' || /s/ || as in ‘see’
+| š || [ʃ] || Voiceless post-alveolar fricative
 |-
-| '''z''' || /z/ || as in ‘zed’
+| č || [t͡ʃ] || Voiceless post-alveolar fricative
 |-
-| '''sh''' || /ʃ/ || as in ‘she’
+| r || [ɾ] || Alveolar tap
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-|colspan=3| '''''Affricates'''''
+| b || [b] || Voiced bilabial plosive
 |-
-| '''č''' || /t͡ʃ/ || as in ‘cheek’
+| g || [g] || Voiced velar plosive
 |-
-| '''ž''' || /d͡ʒ/ || as in ‘jam’
+| d || [d] || Voiced dental plosive
 |-
-|colspan=3| '''''Nasals and Liquids'''''
+| đ || [d͡ʒ] || Voiced post-alveolar fricative
-|-
-| '''m''' || /m/ || as in ‘me’
-|-
-| '''n''' || /n/ || as in ‘need’
-|-
-| '''r''' || /r/ || as in Japanese ’raku’
-|-
-|colspan=3| '''''Semi-Vowels'''''
-|-
-| '''j''' || /j/ || as in ‘yesterday’
 |-
+| z || [z] || Voiced alveolar fricative
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-| Back Vowels || IPA
+! Grapheme !! IPA Symbol !! Description and notes
-|-
-| a || /a/
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-| o || /o/
+| a || [a] || Open front unrounded vowel
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-| u || /u/
+| e || [e] || Close mid-front unrounded vowel
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-| Front Vowels || IPA
+| i || [i] || Close front unrounded vowel
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-| e || /e/
+| o || [o] || Close mid-back rounded vowel
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-| i || /i/
+| u || [u] || Close back rounded vowel
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-| ö || /ø/
+| ö || [ø] || Close mid-front rounded vowel
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 ====Stress====
-Stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable of the word, but it can sometimes be on the last syllable too. Stress cannot change a word's meaning.
+Stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable of the word, but it can sometimes be on the last syllable too. Stress usually doesn't change the meaning of a word.
 ====Intonation====
+* To indicate that a sentence is a question, the pitch of the last syllable sharply rises.
+* When there are two or more adjectives modifying a noun, or there is a list of nouns or there is a list of choices, the pitch of the last syllables of all words except that of the last words fall. The final syllable of the last word rises.
 ===Phonotactics===
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 ====Diphtongs====
-Note that the vowel "ö" is not allowed to form a diphtong.
+Note that the vowel "ö" is not allowed to form a diphthong.
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-===Consonant clusters====
+====Consonant clusters====
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 ===Nouns===
-There are 10 noun cases that are marked on the noun in Yattano: transitive, intransitive, abessive, existive, derivative or inalienable possessive, genitive, equative, postpositional, perlative
+There are 11 noun cases that are marked on the '''noun''' in Yattano: transitive, intransitive, abessive, existive or ornative, derivative or inalienable possessive, genitive, equative, postpositional, final or benefactive, interal, distributive. There are also 12 cases that are marked on the '''verb''' rather than the noun: locative, dative or terminative, ablative or egressive, illative, causal-final (reason why), causal-final (cause of something), instrumental, cronitive, comitative, translative, adverbial, elative.
 ==Syntax==
 ===Constituent order===