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*Basic [[w:Syllable#Structure|syllabic structure]] is CV, where the '''onset''' (beginning) consonant can be of any type.  

**It is possible to use liquids and approximants as '''glides''' (CLV) between the onset and the rime (ending).  

**Up to two consonants with same voicing may appear in the onset (CCV), especially fricative-plosive combinations, but never two plosives: ''stak'' (fence), ''fkos'' (nest), ''ksaru'' (guard). Affricate ''ts'' takes may be accompanied only by ''w'', ''j'', ''n'' or ''m'': ''tsma'' (doubt). Combination /sl/ has turned into /ɬ/.

**Lateralization and aspiration may never appear together, and nasalized rhoticization is only found in Fanish dialect.

*'''Nucleus''' can be either a vowel or a liquid, thus CVC and CLC are also possible syllables.  

**Vowels (diphthongs included) may exist as a stand-alone nucleic syllable (V), mostly in the beginning or at the end of a word.  

**If nucleus is a liquid, plosives appear in codas only word-finally.

*'''Coda''' (final) may consist of up to three consonants with possible structures: N, S, F, L; NS, FS, LS; NF, SF, LF; NSF, FSF, LSF (Nasal, Stop, Fricative, Liquid). Three-consonant clusters are rare word-medially and receive a schwa after the non-lateral stop: ''kamps'' /kämps/ (marsh) → *''kampsku'' → ''kamposku'' /ˈkäm.pəs.ku/ (at marsh)

**Final liquids appear as syllabic consonants

**Approximants ''j'', ''w'' and plain voiced plosives never appear as coda (final) even though they may be written that way (no written schwa): ''nad'' /nä.də/ (stainy). Voiced fricatives may appear as coda.  

**In coda, plosives with lateral release, however, will reflect the voicing of the onset: ''gatl'' /gädˡl̩/ (jugs) vs. ''katl'' /kätˡl̩/ (knobs)

*Closed syllables, i.e. those ending in coda, are not as common word-medially as open syllables (ending in nucleus) are. When words are inflected, codas tend to become onsets of the following syllable, if possible.

**Voicing status must be the same for consonants touching at syllable boundaries and the voiced one reduces into voiceless: *''katbas''→''katpas'' /kätˈpäs/ (fern) vs. ''oist baku'' /œi̯st^(h) bä.ku/ (under a table)