Pradiul
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Placeholder for a Þiúsьk-inspired descendant of Old Windermere
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
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hard | soft | hard | soft | hard | soft | hard | soft | soft | hard | |||
Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ŋʲ | ŋ | ||||||
Stop | voiceless | p | pʲ | t̪ | tʲ | kʲ | k | ʔ | ||||
voiced | b | bʲ | d̪ | dʲ | gʲ | g | ||||||
Affricate | ts | tsʲ | tʃ | tʃʲ | ||||||||
Fricative | f | fʲ | θˠ | θʲ | s | sʲ | ʃ | ʃʲ | ç | x | h | |
Resonant | v | vʲ | ɫ | lʲ | ɾ | ɾʲ | j |
Only hard consonants are allowed word-finally.
Initial voiceless stops were traditionally not aspirated, but are commonly aspirated now.
Vowels
a/ia e/ie o/io å/iå y/i u/iu /a e o uə~iə i u/ (double letters were historical breathy vowels)
Phonotactics
Zero and C are the only permitted word-final codas.
Here is a list (modulo palatalization) by type of cluster (some clusters may be listed more than once):
- Cl: pl, tl, tsl, cl, bl, gl, fl, chl, sl
- Cr: pr, tr, tsr, cr, br, dr, gr, fr, thr, chr, sr
- Cm: tm, thm, cm, chm, sm
- Cn: fn, cn, chn, sn
- Cng: fng, tng, thng, chng, sng
- Cv: tv, thv, cv, chv, gv, sv, šv
- sC: sp, st, sc, sm, sn, sng, sl, sr, sw
- chC: chm, chn, chng, chl, chr
Voiced stops are not allowed to begin minor syllables in roots. This rule does not apply to proper names.