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== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
=== Consonants === | === Consonants === | ||
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{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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! Manner !! Labial !! Dental !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar | ! Manner !! Labial !! Dental !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar | ||
! style="background: #fff;" | ''Notes'' | ! style="background: #fff;" | ''Notes'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Plosive | ! Plosive | ||
| p || t || ʈ || c || k | | '''p''' || '''t''' || '''ʈ''' || '''c''' || '''k''' | ||
| style="background: #fff;" | ''Some reconstruct voiced plosives.'' | | style="background: #fff;" | ''Some reconstruct additional voiced plosives.'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Pre-nasalised Plosives | ! Pre-nasalised Plosives | ||
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! Nasals | ! Nasals | ||
| m || n || ɳ || ɲ || ŋ | | '''m''' || '''n''' || '''ɳ''' || '''ɲ''' || '''ŋ''' | ||
|style="background: #fff;" | | |style="background: #fff;" | | ||
|- | |- | ||
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! Sonorants | ! Sonorants | ||
| w || l || r || y || ʀ | | '''w''' || '''l''' || '''r''' || '''y''' || '''ʀ''' | ||
| style="background: #fff;" | | | style="background: #fff;" | ''These are also sometimes analysed as appearing between initials and vowels.*'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Voiceless Sonorants | ! Voiceless Sonorants | ||
| ẘ || l̥ || r̊ || ẙ || ʀ̊ | | ẘ || l̥ || r̊ || ẙ || ʀ̊ | ||
| style="background: #fff;" | | |||
|- | |||
! Fricatives | |||
| h* || s* || ʂ || ç <!-- ɕ --> || x | |||
| style="background: #fff;" | | | style="background: #fff;" | | ||
|} | |} | ||
==== Notes ==== | |||
* *In analyses where the sonorants are seen as possible glides between initials and the nucleus, the distribution of initials changes quite heavily. | |||
* There is also a glottal stop, sometimes written as <q>. | |||
* <h> represents would-be /ɸ/, but this sound, when constructed, is meant to suggest a sound change before the voiceless labial sonorant arose. Some do not reconstruct it at all. | |||
* <s> is argued by some to be /θ/. | |||
=== Vowels === | === Vowels === | ||
There are considerably less vowels than consonants, but these have a large number of environmental allophones. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Height | |||
! +y | |||
! +l | |||
! +Ø | |||
! +r | |||
! +ʀ | |||
! +w | |||
|- | |||
! Closed | |||
| i || ɪ || '''ɨ''' || ə || ɯ || u | |||
|- | |||
! Mid | |||
| e || ɜ || '''ǝ''' || ə || ʌ || o | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| æ || æ || '''a''' || a || ɑ || ɑ | |||
|} | |||
=== Phonotactics === | === Phonotactics === | ||
==== Syllable structure ==== | |||
Each syllable has a structure of CVC, better described as Initial-Nucleus-Final. | |||