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Samska’s phonology resembles its natural Scandinavian source languages – it is particularly close to Norwegian and Swedish. It has a large number of vowels which have long and short distinction. Consonants also have a long-short distinction. Consonant length and vowel length have complimentary relationship. Short vowels are followed by long consonants, long vowels are followed by short consonants. | Samska’s phonology resembles its natural Scandinavian source languages – it is particularly close to Norwegian and Swedish. It has a large number of vowels which have long and short distinction. Consonants also have a long-short distinction. Consonant length and vowel length have complimentary relationship. Short vowels are followed by long consonants, long vowels are followed by short consonants. | ||
Many consonants have been subject to palatization when before a frontal vowel. This means that related words may have quite different consonants. This can even be the case | Many consonants have been subject to palatization when before a frontal vowel. For example '''sk-''' is normally /sk/ but before '''e, i, y, ä''' and '''ö''' it is /ʃ/. This means that related words may have quite different consonants. This can even be the case with the inflections of a word - if the vowel changes due to an inflection, then the consonant may be palatized as a result. In the case of the '''G''' consonant, when at the end of word it will be pronounced as /g/. But adding a suffix such as '''-en''' will change the pronunciation to /j/. For example '''dag''' /dɑːg/ > '''dagen''' /ˈdɑːjən/. | ||
== Sample Texts == | == Sample Texts == | ||