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== Phonology ==
== Phonology ==
Nahónda phonology is relatively straightforward.  Except for ejectives acquired from Siouan and other surrounding languages, its phonemic inventory otherwise consists of an average set of consonants, and a five-vowel system.  Its phonemic inventory is considerably larger than Nankóre, which lost most of its voiced consonants, and a slightly larger than Minhast, which lacks affricates.  Unlike both Minhast and Nankóre, Nahónda has an exclusively CV syllabic structure.  Thus, Nahónda cognates always end in a vowel, whereas the former allow consonants in coda position.
Nahónda phonology is relatively straightforward.  Except for ejectives acquired from Siouan and other surrounding languages, its phonemic inventory otherwise consists of an average set of consonants, and a five-vowel system.  Its phonemic inventory is considerably larger than Nankóre, which lost most of its voiced consonants, and a slightly larger than Minhast, which lacks affricates.  In syllabic structure, a CV syllabic structure predominates and almost all words end in a vowel, although intermedial biconsonantal clusters do occur, e.g. ''wanko'' /waŋku/ "that one over there".


===Nahónda Consonantal Inventory===
===Nahónda Consonantal Inventory===
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