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=== Mood === | === Mood === | ||
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== | == Pronouns == | ||
== | == Demonstrative == | ||
== | == Adpositions == | ||
== | == Numerals == | ||
Revision as of 02:24, 14 October 2016
Introduction
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Flap / tap | ɾ | |||||||
| Fricative | f | s | x | |||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | h | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
Phonotactics
Syllables are minimally V and maximally CrVVK
| Syllable | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Onset | Medial | Nucleus | Coda |
| (C) | (r) | V (V) | (K) |
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- Medial /ɾ/ can only go after a voiceless consonant and reduces to [l] after a fricative.
- Coda /n/ and /s/ assimilate by place of articulation to the following consonant
- Intersyllabic /ɾ.ɾ/ are fortitioned into /r./
Stress
It has a pitch-accent system that is mostly used to differentiate verbs from non-verbs.
Grammar summary
Basic sentence structure is SOXV, or Subject Object Oblique Verb.