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The prestige dialect of Alaia has 19 consonants, 4 monophthongs and 5 diphthongs. Words are always stressed on the penultimate syllable, and have a syllabic structure of (C)(C)V(C)(C) strongly adhering to the sonority hierarchy. Every single content word must be at least two syllables long.<sup>[Xhosa]</sup> Alaia's inflectional morphology uses suffixes exclusively, while derivational morphology makes use of prefixes, suffixes and circumfixes. Nouns inflect for four cases and two numbers, adjectives for gender and sometimes case and number as well, and verbs for 7 TAMs plus one non-finite form. Alaia's neutral word order is SOV. It has both prepositions and postpositions, adjectives and genitives usually precede nouns, and relative clauses follow nouns. Negation is achieved with a preverbal particle, subordination always by a subordinator. It is strongly dependent-marking. It is by far the most successful of the Odolic languages. | The prestige dialect of Alaia has 19 consonants, 4 monophthongs and 5 diphthongs. Words are always stressed on the penultimate syllable, and have a syllabic structure of (C)(C)V(C)(C) strongly adhering to the sonority hierarchy. Every single content word must be at least two syllables long.<sup>[Xhosa]</sup> Alaia's inflectional morphology uses suffixes exclusively, while derivational morphology makes use of prefixes, suffixes and circumfixes. Nouns inflect for four cases and two numbers, adjectives for gender and sometimes case and number as well, and verbs for 7 TAMs plus one non-finite form. Alaia's neutral word order is SOV. It has both prepositions and postpositions, adjectives and genitives usually precede nouns, and relative clauses follow nouns. Negation is achieved with a preverbal particle, subordination always by a subordinator. It is strongly dependent-marking. It is by far the most successful of the Odolic languages. | ||
===Phonology ( | ===Phonology (will contain more than just the inventory)=== | ||
The phonemic inventory is shown in the following tables. | The phonemic inventory of the prestige dialect of Iknapu is shown in the following tables. | ||
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<sup>1</sup>/ei/ is pronounced [ei] in stressed syllables, [əi] in unstressed ones. | <sup>1</sup>/ei/ is pronounced [ei] in stressed syllables, [əi] in unstressed ones. | ||
The prestige dialect does not have any rising diphthongs. | The prestige dialect does not have any rising diphthongs. | ||
[[Category:Languages]][[Category:Conlangs]][[Category:A priori]] | [[Category:Languages]][[Category:Conlangs]][[Category:A priori]] | ||