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Consonant clusters are not allowed word-intially in native words, and only two consonants are allowed together medially and finally, except for a very small ammount of words, like in ''tarste'' "a big bag". However, this rule is omitted in recent loanwords, like ''transporta'' "transport vehicle" or ''elektronika'' "electronics". | Consonant clusters are not allowed word-intially in native words, and only two consonants are allowed together medially and finally, except for a very small ammount of words, like in ''tarste'' "a big bag". However, this rule is omitted in recent loanwords, like ''transporta'' "transport vehicle" or ''elektronika'' "electronics". | ||
[[w:Palatalization|Palatalization]] is a Carpathian feature shared by its neighbouring languages. All palatal consonants, except for ť,w hich contrasts with j, can be either plain or geminated, for example ''vaľľa''-''vaľā'' ("freedom" in nominative and accusative cases respectively). Unlike other palatal consonants '''ť''' is a strong grade (and thus is often released as [cː] instead of plain [c]) Its weak grade is '''j''' - '' | [[w:Palatalization|Palatalization]] is a Carpathian feature shared by its neighbouring languages. All palatal consonants, except for ť,w hich contrasts with j, can be either plain or geminated, for example ''vaľľa''-''vaľā'' ("freedom" in nominative and accusative cases respectively). Unlike other palatal consonants '''ť''' is a strong grade (and thus is often released as [cː] instead of plain [c]) Its weak grade is '''j''' - ''keťi''-''keja'' "ball of thread" in nominative and accusative cases. | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||