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*{eː,oː}w → uː | *{eː,oː}w → uː | ||
*{eː,oː} → {iː,u} | *{eː,oː} → {iː,u} | ||
* epenthetic /a/ appears to break invalid consonant clusters | * epenthetic /a/ appears to break invalid consonant clusters, except in words borrowed from Russian and English. | ||
* epenthetic /i/ appears before [l ʐ ɢ] if they occur in the beginning of words. | * epenthetic /i/ appears before [l ʐ ɢ] if they occur in the beginning of words. | ||
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Stress falls always on the penultimate syllable. | Stress falls always on the penultimate syllable. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
[l ʐ ɢ] can't appear at the beginning of words, but can occur at the beginning of a medial syllable, while [p t k q s j m n v ʂ j f χ] can occur both at the beginning of a word and at the beginning of a medial syllable. <br> | |||
[ŋ] can only come at the beginning of a medial syllable after another [ŋ]. <br> | |||
If there is a long and a short vowel in sequence, and vice versa, for example [aːi], an epenthetic [ŋ] appears to break this hiatus, in this case, becoming [aːŋi]. <br> | |||
[t] and [b] become [ʐ] and [v], respectively between vowels (assibilation). <br> | |||
[k], [q] and [t] become [ŋ], [ʁ] and [n], respectively, before [n] <br> | |||
Consonants can be geminated, but in this case, they should be pronounced as if there were two of them. | |||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||