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-| pronunciation=[ɨ́sɫø̠xʋń̩]
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 Hwnic is a pitch-accent language. The continuants may be syllabic. Syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), with most word roots taking the form of C(C)V. Connected speech is subject to a set of more complex rules involving use of non-modal phonation.
-Hwnic is written with the Latin alphabet. For most consonants, there is a one-to-one correspondence of sound to spelling. For vowels, however, spelling rules are more varied. Some particles also have unexpected pronunciations. Therefore Hwnic orthography is not entirely phonetic. The first letter of the first word in a sentence is capitalized, but native Hwnic names of people and places are not capitalized. Unfamiliar loanwords and technical jargon are in title case. Acronyms and proper nouns retain their capitalization as in the source language. Hwnic can be written with no punctuations other than spaces, where particles and capitalization are employed to denote quotation, change of topic, intonation, and so on; however, an English-like pattern of punctuation is also possible.
+Hwnic is written in the Latin alphabet. Unfamiliar loanwords and technical jargon are in title case. Acronyms and proper nouns retain their capitalization as in the source language. Hwnic can be written with no punctuations other than spaces, where particles and capitalization are employed to denote quotation, change of topic, intonation, and so on; however, an English-like pattern of punctuation is also possible.
 The grammar of Hwnic is mostly simple and straightforward. Word order is SOV, but sentences may show up as OV due to pro-drop. Nouns are not declined, but may take affixes that denote number, negation, state, or property. Verbs are conjugated to person, number, and sometimes mood; an auxiliary verb can show tense, aspect, and animacy/volition.
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 * Vowels often lack front-back contrast, and vowels tend to assimilate to consonants and not the other way around.
-The phonetics of Hwnic is not as clean as the tables of phonemes might suggest. /c/ has 4 allophones and /g/ has 3. Vowel combinations can have unexpected pronunciations. Word-initial /o/ sometimes comes from syllabic /l/, and this /l/ is restored when placed after a vowel sound as well as giving the vowel a rising tone, and so on.
+The orthography is based on the IPA. However, a key point is usually vowels assimilate to consonants and not the other way around: ''pe te ke qe'' would be [pE tE k@ qe3(-)]. The most common value for i is [i3] which is often realized as [i2(lower)], whereas the less common value [i] appears in some particles and palatalizes the preceding consonant. The values for y and u are the same in native words, although y can be [ai] in loanwords. Syllabic l has a schwa-onglide to distinguish it from /o/.
 === Stress and prosody ===
+Most words have initial stress. A syllable containing a syllabic /l/, most commonly ''bl'', ''ml'', and ''dl'', is stressed. For words that start with a syllabic /m/, /n/, or /r/, the stress may be on the second syllable. Particles have low pitch, and as such a few pairs of words are distinguished by tone alone. Compound words retain the stress of their constituents, although consecutive stress causes pitch sandhi and the second stress takes on a low or falling pitch.
 === Phonotactics ===
+Syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), with most word roots taking the form of C(C)V.
 == Morphology ==