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Kaikiwan intonation is technically phonemic, meaning semantics can change based on tone pronunciation alone, though in practice very few words distinguish between themselves solely on tone. A commonly used example of this in the language itself would be the word for the islands of Hawai'i, ''húwui'', and the word for "salmon", ''hùwui'', although ''hùwui'' is an archaic term, and most modern speakers prefer the term ''sámo'', based on the English term. | Kaikiwan intonation is technically phonemic, meaning semantics can change based on tone pronunciation alone, though in practice very few words distinguish between themselves solely on tone. A commonly used example of this in the language itself would be the word for the islands of Hawai'i, ''húwui'', and the word for "salmon", ''hùwui'', although ''hùwui'' is an archaic term, and most modern speakers prefer the term ''sámo'', based on the English term. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Kaikiwan has a (C | Kaikiwan has a (C)V(V)(C) syllable structure. | ||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
Kaikiwan has a ''sandhi'' system similar to the French ''liaison''. The most common type of sandhi in Kaikiwan is what the OPKLC calls ''naso-palatal sandhis'', or when one word ends with a /n/ and the next word begins with a /ʎ/, in which case the two sounds combine into one /ɲ/. A less common sandhi is the ''alveolo-labial sandhi'', where a /t/ and a /w/ side by side merge into a /tù/. | Kaikiwan has a ''sandhi'' system similar to the French ''liaison''. The most common type of sandhi in Kaikiwan is what the OPKLC calls ''naso-palatal sandhis'', or when one word ends with a /n/ and the next word begins with a /ʎ/, in which case the two sounds combine into one /ɲ/. A less common sandhi is the ''alveolo-labial sandhi'', where a /t/ and a /w/ side by side merge into a /tù/. | ||