'Ináwah

'Ináwah
'Ináwah
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ʔi.ˈná.wah]]
Created by	iancgil
Language family	'Ináwah

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d				k g	ʔ
Nasal	m	n
Fricative			s z	ʃ		ɣ	h
Lateral Fricative		ɬ
Approximant					j
Lateral Approximant		l
Affricate		tɬ dɮ

Vowels

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	Front	Back	Diphthongs
Close	i	u	uj
Close-Mid	e		ej
Open	a		aj

Tones

'Ináwah technically only has two tones (high and neutral), but adjacent, identical vowels with contrasting tones may produce rising or falling tones with long vowel length in lax speech. A high tone is the marked tone and is denoted in romanization by an acute acent above the vowel and by a bar in native orthography.

Phonotactics

Allowed Syllables

• CV(h,j)
• ʕ(syllabic nasal)

Phonological Rules

nasal > ʕ + syllabic / $_$ j > i / V_$

Syllable Stress

• High tones always get primary stress.
• If there is a word with all identical tones, the ultimate syllable receives primary stress.
• In the event that there are varying tones, the last high tone receives the primary stress.