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====Similarities between Official and Colloquial Jalaia==== | ====Similarities between Official and Colloquial Jalaia==== | ||
=====Vowel harmony===== | |||
Jalaia uses vowel harmony in all circumstances to the effect that any affixes can be altered if the affix contains a sound that is affected by vowel harmony. | |||
Vowel harmony requires that words have only either front or back vowels, with the central [ä] considered to be front rather than central for purposes of grammatical comprehensibility. This means that the front vowels [ä], [o] and [u] and the back vowels [æ], [ø] and [y] cannot be used in the same word. The vowels [e] and [i] are neutral and can be used regardless of the vowels used in a word. | |||
Whether a word uses front vowels or back vowels can can influence a word's meaning; e.g. compare: | |||
:"taa", meaning "river" | |||
:"tää", meaning "knee". | |||
This effect is continued with affixes; e.g. compare: | |||
:"taatta", meaning "from the river" | |||
:"täättä", meaning "from the knee". | |||
This effect continues with all the affixes that contain a non-neutral vowel; e.g. compare: | |||
:"taattammasan", meaning "to your location from the river" | |||
:"täättämmäsän", meaning "to your location from the knee" | |||
:"taaittaiuuias olanis", meaning "[it] was where one moves inside between the rivers" | |||
:"tääittäiyyiäs olanis", meaning "[it] was where one moves inside between the knees". | |||
=====Consonant clusters===== | |||
=====Vowel clusters===== | |||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||