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Background

Phonology

Consonants

Like other ¬ languages, Aškilun has a very reduced vowel inventory. There are only three distinct vowels which when in a weak position1 collapse into a schwa (ə) in a 'weak' position.

Vowels in North Aškilun
front mid back
close i u
mid (ə)
open ä
1. In the religious register yašur isali (“refined speech”) every vowel is pronounced as it were and does not reduce. Compare the pronunciation of ašarraḡin (“to the queen”) as /aˈʃaraʔˌk’in/ with the regular schwa-heavy /əˈʃarəʔˌk’in/.

Three consonant series: unaspirated b /p/, d /t/, g /k/, aspirated p /pʰ/, t /tʰ/, k /kʰ/, ejective /p’/, /t’/, /k’/ These series of stops have traditionally been termed the tenuis, the fortis, and the lenis series.

The language has regressive (leftward) pre-glottalization before the fortis and lenis stops, thus yataḏa /jəˈʔtʰaʔt’a/ 'he collects' but gaduš /katuʃ/ 'knife'

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