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! style="" |Close
! style="" |Close
| '''i''' /i/
| '''i''' /ɪ/
| '''eu''' /ɨ/
| '''eu''' /ɨ/
| '''u''' /u/
| '''u''' /ʊ/
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! style="" |Mid
! style="" |Mid
| '''e''' /e/
| '''e''' /ɛ/
| '''eo''' /ə/
| '''eo''' /ə/
| '''o''' /o/
| '''o''' /ɔ/
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! style="" |Open
! style="" |Open

Revision as of 01:59, 2 March 2016

Xaetjeonw (Xaetjeonw: raeychnae Xaetjeonw) is a Kammalic language based on Praimhín's Rencadian (now abandoned).

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Lateral Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ng /ŋ/
Stop/Affricate tenuis b /p/ d /t/ dz /ts/ dx /tɬ/ dj /tʃ/ g /k/
aspirated p /pʰ/ t /tʰ/ ts /tsʰ/ tq /tɬʰ/ tj /tʃʰ/ c /kʰ/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ th /θ/ s /s/ q /ɬ/ sj /ʃ/ ch /x/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ dh /ð/ z /z/ x /ɮ/ zj /ʒ/ gh /ɣ/
Approximant l /ɫ/ y /j/ w /w/
Trill r /r/
Notes
  • In casual speech, the unaspirated stops and affricates /p t ts tɬ tʃ k/ are voiced intervocalically to [b d dz dɮ dʒ ɡ].

Vowels

Hlou-Shum languages vowels
Front Central Back
Close i /ɪ/ eu /ɨ/ u /ʊ/
Mid e /ɛ/ eo /ə/ o /ɔ/
Open a /a/

Lenition

Normal p t ts s tq q tj sj c b d dz z dx x dj zj g
Lenited f th s h q h sj h ch v dh z 0 x 0 zj 0 gh
Normal m n ng w l r y
Lenited w n w w w r y

Prosody

Stress

In native words stress is on the first syllable, not counting prefixes. In loans (e.g. from Vrushka) stress falls on the same syllable as in the source language.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology