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* Any sonorant followed by itself; if a conflict occurs, one is dropped for consonants. | * Any sonorant followed by itself; if a conflict occurs, one is dropped for consonants. | ||
** Vowel handling under this rule differs between dialects, though usually either they combine to a long vowel, or the latter vowel is given hard attack. Dialects where the latter is common may write such words as if they had an intervening /q/ between the vowels. | ** Vowel handling under this rule differs between dialects, though usually either they combine to a long vowel, or the latter vowel is given hard attack. Dialects where the latter is common may write such words as if they had an intervening /q/ between the vowels. | ||
* Two consecutive consonants that differ only in voicing; if a conflict occurs, then the voiced | * Two consecutive consonants that differ only in voicing; if a conflict occurs, then the unvoiced consonant becomes voiced unless the prior vowel is phonetically short (/i u e o ə a/) and unstressed, then the voiced consonant becomes unvoiced. | ||
* Any obstruent followed by another of the same manner of articulation; if this occurs, then the one closest to the root is duplicated to the one further from the root. | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||