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! [[w:Stop consonant|Stop]]
! [[w:Stop consonant|Stop]]
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] || [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]] || [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] || [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]] || [[w:Voiced postalveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]] || [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || [[w:Voiced velar stop|g]]
| [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|p]] || [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|b]] || [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t]] || [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]] || [[w:Voiceless postalveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]] || [[w:Voiced postalveolar affricate|d͡ʒ]] || [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]] || [[w:Voiced velar stop|g]]
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! [[w:Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
! [[w:Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
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*Fricatives except /h/ are voiced intervocalically and adjacent to voiced stops.
*Fricatives except /h/ are voiced intervocalically and adjacent to voiced stops.
*/m/ is realized as [ɱ] before /f/.
*/m/ is realized as [ɱ] before /f/.
*/n,l/ are velarized in coda.
*/n,l/ are velarized in coda.
**/n/ is realized as [ŋ] before velar consonants.
**/n/ is realized as [ŋ] before velar consonants.


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Vowels
|-
! !! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] [[w:Unrounded vowel|unrounded]] !! [[w:Front vowel|Front]] [[w:Rounded vowel|rounded]] !! [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
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! [[w:Close vowel|High]]
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] iː i˞ i˞ː || [[w:Close front rounded vowel|y]] yː y˞ y˞ː || [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] uː u˞ u˞ː
|-
! [[w:Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|e]] eː || [[w:Close-mid front rounded vowel|ø]] || [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|o]] oː
|-
! [[w:Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
| [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]] ɛ˞ || [[w:Open-mid front rounded vowel|œː]] || [[w:Mid central vowel|ə]] ɚ
|-
! [[w:Open vowel|Low]]
| [[w:Near-open front unrounded vowel|a]] a˞
|}
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Diphthongs
|-
| əi || əy || əu
|-
| ai || ay || au
|}
*/ə/ is realized as [œ] when stressed.
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
Stress is variable but predominantly initial
Stress is variable but predominantly initial
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==Morphology==
==Morphology==
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Nouns are marked for number by a suffix ''-(e)s'', umlaut, or more rarely by suppletion.
{| class="wikitable"
! !! "hat" !! "bear" !! "oak" !! "dog"
|-
! Singular
| hæt || bére || ác || hund
|-
! Plural
| hætes || béres || ǽc || doges
|}
====Pronouns====
====Pronouns====
===Verbs===
===Verbs===
===Adjectives===
===Adjectives===
===Negation===
===Negation===
===Numerals===
===Numerals===
==Syntax==
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===
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===Noun and verb phrases===
===Noun and verb phrases===
Possessors and numerals precede their head. Adjectives and adverbs follow their head.
===Dependent clauses===
===Dependent clauses===
Dependent clauses directly follow their head.


==Example texts==
==Example texts==
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