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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | Skyrdagor has a highly unbalanced vowel inventory consisting of 21 phonemes (17 monophthongs and 4 diphthongs). | ||
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! !! Front !! Central !! Back | ! !! Front !! Central !! Back | ||
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! High | |||
| i iː ɪ˞ || ɯ ɯ˞ || u uː | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Mid | |||
| ɛ eː || ɘː ɚ || ɔ ɔː oː | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | ! Low | ||
| || a || ɒː ɒ˞ | |||
|- | |||
! Diphthongs | |||
| aɪ̯ || ʊɪ̯ || uɪ̯ ɔɪ̯ | |||
|} | |} | ||
The three short vowels /a ɛ ɔ/ have various allophones depending on the surrounding consonants. For this purpose, consonants may be divided in the following groups: | |||
* ''Light consonants'': /ts tʃ cç ç ʝ ɧ/ | |||
* ''Neutral consonants'': /m n ŋ p b t d k g θ ð s z r j/ | |||
* ''Dark consonants'': /f v x ɣ ʃ ʒ ɬ ɮ/ | |||
When these three vowels are surrounded by neutral consonants, word-initial, or preceded by a neutral consonant and followed by any other (or none), their usual values are [a ɛ ɔ]. When they are surrounded by light consonants, or only preceded by one of them, their values are [a e o]; when surrounded by dark consonants or only preceded by a dark one they are [ɑ ɛ ɔ]. When they are between polarly opposite consonants, the allophone is a transition between two different "expected" sounds: when preceded by a light consonant and followed by a dark one it's [æ͡ɑ e͡ɛ o͡ɔ]; when preceded by a dark consonant and followed by a light one it's [ɑ͡æ æ͡e ʌ͡o]. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||