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(Created page with "This page discusses the phonology of Hatzonian. Hatzonian is a syllable-timed, dynamic-accent language. Due to its wide range, Hatzonian phonology is also quite variable from dialect to dialect. ===Consonants=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Consonant phonemes |- ! ! colspan="3" | Labial ! colspan="3" | Alveolar ! colspan="3" | Post-<br>alveolar/<br>w:Palatal conso...") |
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===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are | Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are the corresponding nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is plain), any non-ejective plosive followed by the alveolar trill /r/ or the non-lateral approximants /j w/, and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/). Beginning nasals have a tendency to blur syllables together, bunching up with the prior vowel phonetically in many dialects, but in some dialects, it is more parsimonious to regard it as prenasalization, and as such it is not considered a coda consonant phonemically. A word cannot start with a geminated consonant, but can start with any other onset besides /h/. | ||
[[Category:Hatzonian]] | [[Category:Hatzonian]] | ||